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Title	:	The Third Policeman
Author	:	Flann O'Brien
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 200 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1999 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Fantasy. Cultural. Ireland. Classics. Humor

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The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe," he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him. The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.

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Original Title:	The Third Policeman
ISBN:	156478214X (ISBN13: 9781564782144)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	de Selby
Setting:	Ireland
Literary Awards:	Tähtivaeltaja Award (1989), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2007)

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According to the "Atomic Theory", I am 80% couch.

It would be easy to dismiss bits of this as sheer exercise in absurdism, which O'Brien's stature as a comic writer might tend to suggest. But there's also his relation to Joyce in Irish literature, the feeling that O'Brien writes science fiction with the imagination of a more erudite Philip K. Dick, the Locus Solus-like wonder and bafflement, and an almost Lovecraftian sense of the obscurely ominous. Really it's this incredible terror or the infinite and unknowable (which actually has a perfect

Before I begin, let me warn you. ***DO NOT READ THE INTRODUCTION UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE READ THE NOVEL** I made the mistake of reading the intro first, and that intro contains a spoiler. It gave away the entire premise of the novel. So I feel like I was gyped a bit here. That being said, even tho I read the novel knowing the outcome, it didnt ruin the story for me at all. TTP is hung up on de Selby (who is this dude?) some of his theories. Here are a few that really interested me: He felt that

"Joe had been explaining things in the meantime. He said it was again the beginning of the unfinished, the re-discovery of the familiar, the re-experience of the already suffered, the fresh-forgetting of the unremembered. Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular and by nature it is interminable, repetitive and very nearly unbearable." - O'Brien (omitted from the published novel) Hell is other people's bicycles. After finishing Flann O'Brien's dark masterpiece of absurdity, I wanted to

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Anyone who has read and enjoyed The Third Policeman will be devastated to learn of its initial rejection, and that after its rejection the author claimed the manuscript was "lost", and that it would have remained "lost" had it not been discovered after the author's death and published posthumously.I, for one, was devastated... devastated, but not surprised - given the novel's outlandish story, falling somewhere on the border between the Surreal and Absurd. Indeed, The Third Policeman was written

Oh, so this is what the Trial would read like if Kafka wrote it on six or seven tabs of acid.