by Flann O'Brien · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780246129710
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«The Dalkey Archive» is the satirical novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien, published in 1986 by Grafton in paperback (208 pages, in English).
In Dalkey, Mick Shaughnessy and his friend Hackett encounter James Joyce working as a barman; Joyce says he gave up literature because of critics and, along with Saint Augustine, plans to distil whisky. The novel combines humour, satire and science fiction, and reflects on identity, religion and the nature of reality.
The novel was originally published in 1964.
For readers of Irish fiction and satirical humour.
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.
