عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PR6029.N56 T48 1999
PR6029
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N56
T48
1999
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
156478214X
b518253
The third policeman :
[Book]
a novel /
by Flann O'Brien ; with an introduction by Denis Donoghue
1st Dalkey Archive ed
Normal, IL :
Dalkey Archive Press,
1999
xiii, 200 pages ;
22 cm
John F. Byrne Irish literature series
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii)
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe, " he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him
Murder, Fiction
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912
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PR6029
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N56
T48
1999
O'Brien, Flann,1911-1966
20060227085943.0
rda
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
