Anna has chosen The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien for our May meeting.
"A
masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author
of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic
satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision
of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair
between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt,
'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an
allegory of the absurd. Distinguished by endless comic invention and its
delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, 'The Third Policeman' is
unique in the English language."