by Flann O'Brien · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586089514
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The Hard Life is a novel by Irish author Flann O'Brien, first published in 1961. The story follows the lives of two eccentric uncles, Collopy and Divine, and their misadventures in Dublin. The novel is a comic satire of Irish society, religion, and politics, full of humor and quirky characters. A masterpiece of modern Irish literature.
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.
