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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.
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No Laughing Matter, Anthony Cronin
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1989
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- No Laughing Matter
- Untertitel
- The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Anthony Cronin
- Verlag
- Grafton Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1989
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 260
- ISBN10
- 0246128364
- ISBN13
- 9780246128362
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft, Biographien, Literarische Kritik, Irland, Irische Literatur, Modernismus
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.