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#1157 "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien

#1157 "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien

Update: 2025-03-19
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A nameless narrator commits a murder. As a result, he must traverse an absurdist landscape of two-dimensional buildings, bumbling police officers, and philosophical meanderings about bicycles. What percentage of one man can become a bicycle before he ceases to be more man than bicycle? 

Born in 1911, Irish novelist and playwright Brian O'Nolan made a name for himself in the metafiction movement of the 1940s under the pseudonym of Flann O'Brien. The Third Policeman, a novel that never found a publisher until after the author's death in 1966, is truly one of the strangest novels that any one of us has ever read. It also happens to be one of the more thought-provoking. 

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#1157 "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien

#1157 "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien