Publication
Souvenir Press Ltd (2010), 192 pagina's
Physical description
192 p.; 5.08 inches
ISBN
0285638831 / 9780285638839
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Description
Including 'The Brother', O'Brien's most lasting comic creation, these are the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman, which first appeared in Flann O'Brien's legendary column in The Irish Times as shaggy dog stories -- always ending in a terrible pun -- that demonstrate his extraordinary comic inventiveness. The Brother is the quintessential Dubliner, an authority on every topic who always knows best, and has become a loved Irish comic character and is the author of the great ode to stout.
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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. Show Less
LibraryThing member simonaries
Made me laugh.