One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel by âa spectacularly gifted comic writerâ (Newsweek). The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)âand has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly masterpiece published, he winds up committing robberyâand murder. From here, this remarkably imaginative dark comedy proceeds into a world of riddles, contradictions, and questions about the nature of eternity as our narrator meets some policemen with an obsession of their own (specifically, bicycles), and engages in an extended conversation with his dead victimâand his own soul, which he nicknames Joe. By the celebrated Irish author praised by James Joyce as âa real writer, with the true comic spirit,â The Third Policeman is an incomparable work of fiction. ââTis the odd joke of modern Irish literatureâof the three novelists in its holy trinity, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann OâBrien, the easiest and most accessible of the lot is OâBrien. . . . Flann OâBrien was too much his own man, Irelandâs man, to speak in any but his own tongue.â âThe Washington Post
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