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A comic trip through hell in Ireland, as told by a murderer, The Third Policeman is another inspired bit of confusing and comic lunacy from the warped imagination and lovably demented pen of Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Press
March 1999
216 pages ISBN: 156478214X Trade Size (reprint)
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The last of O'Brien's novels to be published and now
reissued by Dalkey Archive, THE THIRD POLICEMAN is Flann
O'Brien's brilliant comic novel about the nature of time,
death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a
botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and
his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where he
is intruduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to
bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be
just down the road), and the view that the earth is not
round but "sausage-shaped."
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