by Flann O'Brien · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330248556
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Delve into the wit and biting humor of Flann O'Brien with 'The Best of Myles'. This selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn' offers a satirical look at Irish society, exploring topics such as justice, improbable inventions, and the peculiarities of everyday life. With his unique mastery of language and unmistakable style, O'Brien invites you to reflect on the human condition through a comic and insightful lens.
Brian O'Nolan, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, was an Irish Civil Service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His four English-language novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967), were published under the pen name Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish-language novel, An Béal Bocht (1941), were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.
