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The year of 1967 CE.

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The Complete Novels of Flann O’Brien

Flann O'Brien
Interwar Wartime Contemporary UK Literature

The Complete Novels of Flann O’Brien

Each novel is a different exploration and comment on Irish culture, but each is written in a style that is uniquely O’Brien’s. He has a talent for bitter, scathing satire that sits in the midst of light, often comic prose.

January 31, 2022January 30, 2022 by S. Hargrave — Comment on The Complete Novels of Flann O’Brien

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Tove Ditlevsen
Contemporary Danish Memoir

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Chapters, paragraphs, sentences, and words flow into each other, but at the same time there are images and concepts that stand out and become touchstones for the work as a whole. This is a review of Tove Ditlevsen’s The Copenhagen Trilogy.

May 17, 2021May 18, 2021 by S. Hargrave — Comment on The Copenhagen Trilogy
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