Blank O\' Brien

Flann O' Brien is the pseudonym more the current of Brian O' Nolan , writer and Irish chronicler of English language and Irish E (Strabane, Comté of Tyrone, 1911 - Dublin, April 1st 1966).

Biography

Fifth of twelve children, it proves as of its more young age one brilliance and frightening debattor.

In the University College of Dublin where it makes its studies, the young person Brian O' Nolan takes part in newspapers of students. In 1939 it publishes under the name of Flann O' Brien has Swim-two-birds , a novel puzzle very avant-gardist, recommended by Graham Greene which will be worth a certain success of regard to him, in particular near Samuel Beckett and of James Joyce. In parallel it finds an use of civil servant whom it will keep until 1954 when, following a political polemic, it is constrained to resign of his functions of secretary of many ministries.

It writes the following year the third police officer , a parodic fantastic novel that O' Brien conceived like its masterpiece. Unfortunately the novel will not find an editor. O' Brien will re-use certain passages of this novel in the following, in particular celebrates it atomic theory of the bicycle which postulates the inescapable mixture, during time, of the atoms of the cyclist with those of his bicycle.

Lastly, in 1940, he writes cry-misery , a novel in Irish who then parodies the village chronicles with the mode. This laughing novel caused the awaited scandal and was essential paradoxically, with the wire time, like one of the masterpieces of the literature irlandisante. Despite everything O' Nolan remained disappointed reception of its novels and returned to this kind only twenty years later, with the short novels which are The Hard Life in 1962 and The Dalkey Archive in 1964.

It is in its career of chronicler in the Irish Times that Brian O' Nolan was the greatest success of alive sound. Under the pseudonym of Myles Na Gopaleen (civils servant not being authorized to express itself publicly in their proper name), Brian signs small humorous articles which can recall to the French reader those Alphonse Allais or of Alfred Jarry. The character of Myles quickly became mythical for Dublinois.

Equipped with a fragile health, Brian O' Nolan died, roof of the irony, on April 1st, 1966.

Novelist and chronicler in the wild imagination and of which very black humor often is been useful by a refined writing, Flann O' Brien are today still a reference for many Anglo-Saxon authors, of John Fowles with Gilbert Sorrentino.

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