The various lives of Keats and Chapman, including The brother

by Flann O'Brien

Paperback, 2010

Library's rating

½

Status

Available

Call number

1931.obrien

Genres

Collection

Publication

London : Souvenir, 2010.

Library's review

Hilarische verhalen, cursiefjes, zkv's zo je wil ... met (John) Keats en (George) Chapman in de hoofdrol, als een parodie van Bouvard en Pecuchet ... waarvan meer wel dan niet een gebrek aan kennis van Latijn, de gedichten van Keats, Ierse spreekwoorden en populaire cultuur van halfweg de 20ste
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eeuw een volledig waarderen van de moppen in de weg staat. Waar dat niet het geval is, echter, is de lach vol, gul en luidop.
Fragmenten van The Brother kon ik waarderen, bij andere fragmenten miste ik de houvast van het (nog grotendeels ongelezen) oeuvre van O'Brien.
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User reviews

LibraryThing member Wordsnark
Very funny, outrageous multilingual puns. Also makes you feel the lack of a classical education (or wit).
LibraryThing member David_David_Katzman
I was charmed, but take it with a grain of salt because I love O'Brien. This book collects a bizarre and hilarious one man play--about a poor Irish lout who doesn't like playing the characters that "that fellow" (Flann O'Brien) forces upon him--and a series of shaggy-dog puns featuring the unlikely
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Laurel and Hardy duo of John Keats and George Chapman, translator of Homer. The puns are excerpts from O'Brien's newspaper columns and collected out of context. Despite some of the puns paying off in Latin or with references to mid-Century Irish slang, I still enjoyed the sheer bravado of them. Fuck you, he says, their bad puns. I was amused.
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LibraryThing member simonaries
Made me laugh.

Language

Original language

Irish

Physical description

166 p.; 19 cm

ISBN

9780285638839
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