The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
A masterpiece of black humour from the author of ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’. A surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a village policeman and his bicycle, a chilling fable of unending guilt. ‘The Third Policeman’ is comparable only to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as an allegory of the absurd.
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“Flann O’Brien is very good at the combination of the familiar and the horrifying” Read more...
“there’s something culturally Irish, but not uniquely Irish, of using logic against itself — of exposing the absurdity that’s inherent in logic, if you know what I mean —that he does incredibly well.” Read more...
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