O'BRIEN, Flann.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Third Policeman. First edition of this grimly comic "posthumous fantasy" by "one of the finest of modern Irish fantasists" (Clute & Grant). It follows a murderer who, unknowingly, has himself been murdered and finds himself in a warped alternative Ireland.O'Brien wrote the novel between 1939 and 1940 but, unable to find a willing publisher, withdrew the manuscript from circulation. It was not published until after his death. The surreal landscape, imbued with a sense of the literary weird, is explored in the novel by what Jorge Luis Borges termed "games with time and infinity" (Clute & Grant).

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