Anti-Writer
Clair Wills: Plain Brian O’Nolan, 4 April 2019
The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien
edited by Maebh Long.
Dalkey Archive, 619 pp., £20, April 2018,978 1 62897 183 5 Show More
edited by Maebh Long.
Dalkey Archive, 619 pp., £20, April 2018,
“... and his air of anxious insecurity – a mixture of ‘fretfulness and swagger’, as Maebh Long puts it – is that it was a consequence of his failure to find a publisher for The Third Policeman. By 1941, when he turned thirty, O’Nolan had written three novels and published two: At Swim-Two-Birds (as Flann O’Brien) in 1939, and in 1941 ... ”
