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The Third Policeman

by Flann O’Brien

Narrator Jim Norton

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Length 6 hours 43 minutes

Language English

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“The Third Policeman is a classic of dark, surrealist comedy. If Samuel Beckett and Douglas Adams had collaborated on a novel, it may have come out like this. The narrator is a scholar of the invented philosopher De Selby, a madman who argued, among other things, that the world is actually shaped like a sausage. Desperate to get the funds necessary to publish his book on De Selby, the narrator agrees to help an acquaintance of his rob and kill a local man of means. Years later, after having been holed up with his partner in crime, the narrator sets off to recover the money he never got his hands on.”
— Matt • Page 1 Books

Summary

Flann O’Brien’s most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased after the novel was featured in the hit television series Lost. The series’ creators have said that anyone who has read the book “will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines” of the show. Here it comes to life in a new unabridged recording. “Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious” wrote one critic about the work of Flann O’Brien.