by Flann O'Brien · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780246130143
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«The Hard Life» is the satirical novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien, published by Grafton in paperback (156 pages, in English).
It is a satire set in Dublin that recounts the adventures of two brothers and their surroundings, with humour and a critical eye on poverty, religion and family relationships. The subtitle, «An Exegesis of Squalor», anticipates the portrait of everyday misery and a society full of contradictions.
The novel was originally published in 1961. Flann O'Brien was the pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan, an author also known as Myles na gCopaleen.
For readers who enjoy satire, humour and twentieth-century 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.
