![]() This is truly a remarkable piece of work that has been likened to Alice in Wonderland (1865) but to my mind has more in common with the works of such eccentric European writers as Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, Bruno Schulz, Witold Gombrowicz and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. When you are writing about the world of the dead – and the damned – where none of the rules and laws (not even the law of gravity) holds good, there is any amount of scope for back-chat and funny cracks.” ![]() I think the idea of a man being dead all the time is pretty new. “When you get to the end of this book you realise that my hero or main character (he’s a heel and a killer) has been dead throughout the book and that all the queer ghastly things which have been happening to him are happening in a sort of hell which he earned for the killing. O’Nolan explained The Third Policeman in a letter to the American short story writer William Saroyan thus: ![]() ![]() “Is it about a bicycle?”, the desk sergeant asks for a second time. The omnium subsequently explodes and Divney is killed, whereupon the narrator returns to the police station, which is found to exist within a time loop. His one-time accomplice has aged 16 years and suffers a heart attack at the shock of seeing his forgotten partner in crime. If youre a fan of all things surreal and avant-garde, The Third Policeman by Brian ONolan, writing as Flann OBrien, is like being hurled over the. ![]()
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