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Irish Mimes: Flann O'Brien

by Brooker, Joseph

in a best‐known literary precedent, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass ‐ Alice entering a fantastic world based on characters and conventions of a chess board / book, fractured whole ‐ impulse toward intricate coherence, willfully tumbling into turmoil / Brian O'Nolan, man from the North of Ireland ‐ an archetypal Dubliner / Carroll's Knight, dismembering sense of relation of a thing ‐ driving unsuspected wedges between an object's true identity / Irish mimes ‐ Flann O'Brien / metafictionalist O'Nolan, a bookish writer ‐ in The Poor Mouth, turning bookishness against domination of life by outdated fiction / O'Nolan's literary status, weaker ‐ Cruiskeen Lawn, making him a household pseudonym in Ireland / slice of writing, picked almost at random ‐ vivid little side entrance to oddly shaped edifice of Flann O'Brien's oeuvre / speech and voices, distinguishing Flann O'Brien's second novel ‐ not much overheard and recorded as fantasized and distorted / vision of a Jamesian literary set ‐ author's social life, conducted around circuit of Dublin's pubs, not sherry‐tippling soirées

2010

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Irish Mimes: Flann O'Brien

Brooker, Joseph

2010

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This chapter contains sections titled: Dry Chat Being a Summary Impostures Out of Control In Any Event Indescribable The Badge of Poverty For Which the City of Dublin is Famous References and Further Reading

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a best‐known literary precedent, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass ‐ Alice entering a fantastic world based on characters and conventions of a chess board

/ book, fractured whole ‐ impulse toward intricate coherence, willfully tumbling into turmoil

/ Brian O'Nolan, man from the North of Ireland ‐ an archetypal Dubliner

/ Carroll's Knight, dismembering sense of relation of a thing ‐ driving unsuspected wedges between an object's true identity

/ Irish mimes ‐ Flann O'Brien

/ metafictionalist O'Nolan, a bookish writer ‐ in The Poor Mouth, turning bookishness against domination of life by outdated fiction

/ O'Nolan's literary status, weaker ‐ Cruiskeen Lawn, making him a household pseudonym in Ireland