(urth) The Third Policeman and The Land Across

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Anyone who hasn't read Flann O' Brien / Brian O' Nolan / Myles, then do. Besides great, it's hysterical.

No dia 14/09/2014, às 14:17, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> escreveu:

> I haven't read The Third Policeman,  but have read At Swim-Two-Birds and can vouch for the fact that O'Brien is a genius. Lots of meta fictional hijinks.
> 
> On Sep 14, 2014 3:04 AM, "Auspex Rex" <auspexrex at icloud.com> wrote:
> I’d never heard of Flann O’Brien or The Third Policeman, but reading the synopsis on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman) made me think again about The Land Across. Someone else pointed out the connection to The Third Man already: Grafton mentions Hotel Sacher. Lots of missing, presumed-dead, actually dead, ghost third persons… and TLA’s third border-guard who is sometimes invisible, sometimes not, and looks like the leader of the country, and also looks like Grafton’s father...
> 
> Anyone familiar with The Third Policeman and The Land Across have thoughts on how the former might help us interpret the latter?
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> wrote:
> 
> > - http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/2014/08/lafferty-news-thats-right-news.html
> > - http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-lafferty-secret-sci-fi-genius-poised-for-comeback
> > "RA Lafferty – the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a
> > comeback: A reissue of the US science fiction writer RA Lafferty's
> > stories sold out rapidly this year, and his fans, including Neil
> > Gaiman, hope to see his novels reprinted"
> >
> >> There's something of the Irish comic tradition in there, the
> > absurdity and surreality of Flann O'Brien, author of The Third
> > Policeman. "I agree," says the author Neil Gaiman.
> 
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