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Flann O'Brien

Born

in Strabane, The United Kingdom

October 05, 1911

Died

April 01, 1966

Genre

Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, James Branch Cabell, André Gide, Franz Kaf ...more

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Pseudonym of Brian Ó Nualláin , also known as Brian O'Nolan.

His English novels appeared under the name of Flann O’Brien, while his great Irish novel and his newspaper column (which appeared from 1940 to 1966) were signed Myles na gCopaleen or Myles na Gopaleen – the second being a phonetic rendering of the first. One of twelve brothers and sisters, he was born in 1911 in Strabane, County Tyrone, into an Irish-speaking family. His father had learned Irish while a young man during the Gaelic revival the son was later to mock. O’Brien’s childhood has been described as happy, though somewhat insular, as the language spoken at home was not that spoken by their neighbours. The Irish language had long been in decline, and Strabane was n ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 46,045 ratings · 4,955 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating — 22,885 ratings — published 1967 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating — 14,297 ratings — published 1939 — 263 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien, Patrick C. Power (Translator), Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 3,021 ratings — published 1941 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dalkey Archive 3.82 avg rating — 2,044 ratings — published 1964 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hard Life 3.64 avg rating — 1,149 ratings — published 1961 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Novels by Flann O'Brien, Keith Donohue (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.45 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien by Flann O'Brien, Jack Fennell (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Neil Murphy (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother by Flann O'Brien, Jamie O'Neill (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1976 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn 3.99 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1976 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At War by Flann O'Brien, John Wyse Jackson (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Flann O'Brien (?)

“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

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“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

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“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"

"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.

I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

tags: gallows-humour, humor, humour

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April 2018 New School Poll

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, 183 pages, 1968

65 votes, 18.3%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945

41 votes, 11.5%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pages, 1946

34 votes, 9.6%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902

33 votes, 9.3%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932

27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995

26 votes, 7.3%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 554 pages, 1982

21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938

21 votes, 5.9%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932

21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940

17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933

11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903

10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939

10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987

9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974

4 votes, 1.1%

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, 360 pages, 1962

3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

2 votes, 0.6%

355 total votes

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