(urth) The Third Policeman and The Land Across

[Gerry Quinn]

On 14/09/2014 17:34, Marc Aramini wrote:
> I read it years and years ago ... didn't really remind me of Wolfe at 
> all. Definitely reminded me of a bit of Beckett's Molloy 
> trilogy/Waiting for Godot and RA Lafferty (though much closer is At 
> Swim Two Bird's, with its very similar parallels to the Lafferty 
> canon in The Devil is Dead, but it could just be the "Irishness" of it 
> all.) Maybe I will read it again some day. I am thinking there are 
> parts of Lanark that resonate with The Third Policeman as well.  There 
> is this sense of phantasmagoric mistaken identity and a blurring 
> between the living and the dead held forever in a holding pattern that 
> all those works seem to have in common.
>

I always reckoned Martin Amis's _Other People_ was to some degree 
derivative of _The Third Policeman_.

- Gerry Quinn