No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien

di Anthony Cronin (Autore)

New Island Books, 2019

First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O’Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic and authoritative. Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan) was born in Tyrone in 1911 and worked as a civil servant for many years. He also developed an alter ego, Myles na Gopaleen, whose saitrical column in The Irish Times soon acquired legendary status. At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, appeared in 1939 and was praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas and others. His second novel, The Third Policeman, failed to find a publisher at the time but has since been acknowledged as one of the most important novels to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century. With a foreword by acclaimed author Kevin Barry and striking redesign, No Laughing Matter is an undisputed classic of Irish literary biography.

• Autore: Anthony Cronin
• Editore: New Island Books
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 392 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 135 mm
• Peso: 447 gr.
• EAN: 9781848407145

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