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Article: No Laughing Matter: The Life & Times of Flann O'Brien.(Review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Anthony Cronin. No Laughing Matter: The Life & Times of Flann O'Brien. Fromm, 1998. 260 pp. $29.95.
Originally published in England in 1989, Anthony Cronin's excellent biography of Flann O'Brien is finally available to readers in the United States. Like his more recent biography of Samuel Beckett, No Laughing Matter is a lively, well-researched, sympathetic, and gracefully written book which enters into the heart of Flann O'Brien, who is revealed as a complex, sad, and multitalented genius whose best work--At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, and The Dalkey Archive--can be spoken of in the same breath as Joyce's and Beckett's. Because he was once part of ...