Una pinta d'inchiostro irlandese

Birds fly… Some birds also swim… Once upon a time an ingenious student of literature aspired to write a book… Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes’ chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant an Leggi tutto

Did not think that anything more zany than the 'Third Policeman' was possible (people who like 'Lost' should check the book out, by the way)... On my first read of this book (in 2009) I was too entranced with the main plot device of the characters plotting against the author, etc and probably overlo Leggi tutto

This is a seriously lovely inch perfect parabola of joy which everyone ought to at least try. Go on! You know you want to. All right, you didn't know you wanted to. But i know you better than that! Would I lie? How long have we known each other now? Well then, have I ever recommended a duff book? Na Leggi tutto

"Piteous Though Such Fraud Be" The epigraph in Greek script at the beginning of the novel reads "for all things change, making way for each other". It comes from the following passage of Euripides’ "Heracles": Amphitryon: "Daughter, there may yet be a happy escape From present troubles for me and you; M Leggi tutto

Flann O'Brien is surely Ireland's most neglected writer. Though his talent was on a par with the genius of his contemporaries, Joyce and Beckett, he has never come close to achieving the same degree of recognition. There are several possible explanations for this. The simplest is that Joyce and Beck Leggi tutto