The Dalkey Archive (Irish Literature) - Softcover

O′brien, Flann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564781720 ISBN 13: 9781564781727

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

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Review:

The Dalkey Archive is witty, sly, outrageous, and the characters remind one at times of Nabokov or De Vries.

Dalkey Archive [Press] has made one reader very happy and likely will intoxicate many others with Flann O'Brien's fine brew of malt, salt, air, heady ideas and rich, ripe prose.

The undoubted humor of [The Dalkey Archive] derives as much from Mr. O'Brien's facile use of language as from the play of his fertile imagination . . . not to be missed.

It is increasingly clear that O'Brien is Ireland's finest novelist after Joyce.

Flann O'Brien is unquestionably a major author. His work, like that of Joyce, is so layered as to be almost Dante-esque . . . Joyce and Flann O'Brien assault your brain with words, style, magic, madness, and unlimited invention. --Anthony Burgess

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From the Back Cover:

Flann O'Brien's third novel, 'The Dalkey Archive' is a riotous depiction of the extraordinary events surrounding theologian and mad scientist De Selby's attempt to destroy the world by removing all the oxygen from the atmosphere. Only Michael Shaughnessy, 'a lowly civil servant', and James Joyce, alive and well and working as a barman in the nearby seaside resort of Skerries, can stop the inimitable De Selby in his tracks.

"Flann O'Brien is inventive, his storytelling is swift and sure, making the eccentric seem natural and the commonplace hilarious"
THE TIMES

"'The Dalkey Archive' is worth every penny for the hilarious fourth chapter alone in which De Selby and his two drinking companions in aqualungs converse with St Augustine in an underwater cave off Dalkey seafront. A wicked yet affectionate satire on Irishry"
CITY LIMITS

"O'Brien's dialogue is keen and inspired, the prose lucid and sharp with a blend of lunatic improbable and seamless quotidian"
IRISH TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564781720
• ISBN 13: 9781564781727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 204