The Third Policeman

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208 pages

English language

Published Aug. 16, 1993

ISBN:
978-0-586-08749-7
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The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written between 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation and claimed he had lost it. The book remained unpublished at the time of his death in 1966. It was published by MacGibbon & Kee in 1967.

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reviewed The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

A weird book

4 stars

I quite enjoyed this book. It's one of those where a bunch of weird things happen and I'm left wondering "Is this saying something? Or is it just a bunch of weird things happening?" I remember having the same reaction to 100 years of solitude.

For example, one policeman is obsessed with bicycles. Does that signify something or is it just a silly idea that O'Brien thought was funny so he put it in his book?

So, I'll say that I did enjoy this book, although maybe I'm missing some of the profound insight that makes it a classic?

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