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...long time, but though more Ph.D. dissertations have been written on Flann O'Brien since O'Nolan's death in '66 than were written on Joyce in the first ten years after his death, the reading public in this country rarely encounters O'Brien's four English novels: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967) only the first and the last deserve the title "Modern Classics," with which they have now been honored with by Penguin. Stories and Plays, published posthumously this year, is a dish of leftovers, most...
...introduction to Stories and Plays, Claud Cockburn apologizes for the scantiness of O'Brien's oeuvre. He tries to explain the 22-year gap between the enormously successful At Swim and O'Brien's next novel by blaming the Irish intellectuals, the Dublin critics of the 40's and 50's who imposed incessant political and literary demands on promising Irish writers of the time. Reviews of Stories and Plays concur; Bernard Bernstock said "the fault (for O'Brien's laspe in productivity)...lies in the political and intellectual life of northern Ireland." He notes that O'Nolan, unlike Joyce...
...hand view of the Great Blasket "forbidding as an otherworldly eel, lying languidly on the wavetops". O'Nolan-na Gopaleen-O'Coonassa pulls the world in to the heart of Gaelic country and idiom. A chain of personae is a trademark of O'Nolan's literary career--in At Swim, as in O'Nolan's life, there is a writer who creates a writer who creates a writer. But in The Poor Mouth the technique has a specific function: to carry the Gaeligore and/na Gopaleen enthusiast a step away from the Irish Times and from a facile understanding of "Gaelic...
...loss of vitality. His sympathies are generous; his descriptions of the nation's heartland landscapes throb with passion. Because its parts are greater than the sum of its whole, Now Playing at Canterbury will disappoint those who are still searching for that Loch Ness monster of the literary swim, the Great American Novel...
...reporters, pressing for news breaks, were themselves pressed. "I can't move, I can't breathe, I can't see, I can't talk. This is awful," muttered ABC's Ann Compton as she tried to swim upstream through a crowded aisle. Compton rose to the occasion, beating her colleagues to several good interviews, including one with Rockefeller just after the Vice President's scuffle. Trouble was, her producers chose not to use it, a common frustration for floor reporters. ABC's Sam Donaldson, unable to sell his control room an interview with...