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how to handle Flann Dalkey ?
a pathetic joke ?
or a brillant grotesque comédie hook ?
Mick with Hackett meet De Selby foot cut and went in his uphill cottage where exterminator bomb awaits, drink whiskey distillery homemade make funny things at finnegan’s wake, then underwater they went to see the apparition of St. Augustine talking about a kind of annoying Paradise, Mick later went in James Joyce inspectetion since not dead he is, now a barmaid was he even having forgotten Work in Progress went published
’64, so Joyce will be 82, quit possible, but not yet finish we have, Mick climbing to get De Selby secret weapon helped by Sergent Fromel, Mary (of course) in love
mmmh…a doubt suddenly arises, Mick looks like a kind of T., well, it is the other way round, T. looks like Mick
Dalkey Archives looks like G.
let’s severely dig among the publication dates
this book confirms what is inJack the Ripper James Joyce Stanley Kubrick: the real story and his identities


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The Dalkey Archive Flann O'Brien Books Reviews

I bought Dalkey, after having read O'Brien's surrealistic wonder "The Third Policeman", anticipating more vivid imagination and inspired writing. Oh dear.

It starts promisingly, with our hero Mick encountering the villain de Selby, who has decided to eliminate the unworthy human race, using a substance he has concocted, which removes all oxygen from the atmosphere. A side-effect is that it also eliminates time, and so de Selby and Mick spend time in an underwater cave, all oxygen removed, wearing breathing apparatus, where de Selby talks to religious saints like St Augustine.

And here I got my first warning. The conversation with St Augustine is long-winded & theological, & I had to skip to the next chapter. The remainder of the book is really quite pedestrian writing, entailing a long slow meander as Mick endeavours to thwart de Selby's plans. The only imaginative passage from then on is the strange theory expounded by Sergeant Fottrell about "mollycules", whereby he holds that extensive riding of bicycles results in a mingling of the molecules between bike & rider, with amusing results.

However this is not enough to rescue the book, nor is Mick's subsequent recruitment of James Joyce, whom he unearths quietly retreated from the world as a simple barman near Dublin. His conversations with Joyce are like the Augustine sequence, filled with theological meanderings concerning Catholic doctrine, and tedious.

In fact the final chapter featuring Mick and Joyce could well have been written by a rather dull 16-year old schoolboy, so lacking in substance is it.

If you're an O'Brien fanatic (and some are) then you might read it for completeness, but don't expect anything much from the philosopher/scientist de Selby, whose thoughts run madly through "Third Policeman". After the intriguing beginning, he just peters out, as does the book as a whole.
I'm biased. Love this book. Love this author. Cannot get enough.

What really got me about this book? Believe it or not, it was the ending. The pages between the covers were hysterical as well, but the... well, I better not ruin it. Just read the %^*$ book.
Not Flann O'Briens best work, draws on the then unpublished Third Policeman, but still most interesting and amusing.
The Dalkey Archive, Flann O’Brien, 202 pages. As far as comic writing and style go, this novel pushes a five; as far as plot integrity goes, however, it skids a good deal, especially with the introduction of a posthumous James Joyce as a character just over halfway into the text. Mick, the protagonist, does offer a solidly entertaining trip as he moves from amazement with the occurrences and theories being proffered—time being halted, the end of the world, and the “mollyculer theorem” proving that men are transforming into bicycles through too much contact—into haughty consideration of becoming the next pope or at least a Jesuit. I’m hoping O’Brien’s other novels offer more, so at least this one got my curiosity up, and it is riotously funny for the first half.
how to handle Flann Dalkey ?
a pathetic joke ?
or a brillant grotesque comédie hook ?
Mick with Hackett meet De Selby foot cut and went in his uphill cottage where exterminator bomb awaits, drink whiskey distillery homemade make funny things at finnegan’s wake, then underwater they went to see the apparition of St. Augustine talking about a kind of annoying Paradise, Mick later went in James Joyce inspectetion since not dead he is, now a barmaid was he even having forgotten Work in Progress went published
’64, so Joyce will be 82, quit possible, but not yet finish we have, Mick climbing to get De Selby secret weapon helped by Sergent Fromel, Mary (of course) in love
mmmh…a doubt suddenly arises, Mick looks like a kind of T., well, it is the other way round, T. looks like Mick
Dalkey Archives looks like G.
let’s severely dig among the publication dates
this book confirms what is inJack the Ripper James Joyce Stanley Kubrick the real story and his identities