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O'BRIEN, F.: Third Policeman (The) (Unabridged)

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O'BRIEN, F.: Third Policeman (The) (Unabridged)

Flann O’Brien’s most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased after the novel was featured in the 5 October 2005 episode of the hit television series Lost. The series’ creators have said that anyone who has read the book “will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines” of the show. Here it comes to life in a new unabridged recording. “Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious”, wrote one critic about the work of Flann O’Brien.

Disc 1

The Third Policeman

1.	CHAPTER 1 00:04:40

2.	After a few days… 00:05:01

3.	A full year had not passed… 00:03:39

4.	It was about this time, when I was nearly 30… 00:05:39

5.	I do not know exactly how or when… 00:05:09

6.	On our way, I said to Divney… 00:05:40

7.	CHAPTER 2 00:05:32

8.	I cannot hope to describe what it was. 00:04:48

9.	Forlornly, I looked and saw that this was true. 00:06:44

10.	"No" is generally speaking a better answer than "Yes"… 00:05:45

11.	Where's the black box which was under the floor…' 00:07:04

12.	And how does this enable you…' 00:05:52

Disc 2

The Third Policeman

1.	CHAPTER 3 00:05:15

2.	Everything seemed almost too pleasant… 00:06:53

3.	I walked on unperturbed… 00:06:29

4.	I am a robber,' he said. 00:07:07

5.	CHAPTER 4 00:05:01

6.	Of my own journey to the police - barracks… 00:04:17

7.	His back appearance was unusual. 00:06:24

8.	He's gone to America…' 00:06:21

9.	These are interesting rules…' 00:04:46

10.	CHAPTER 5 00:07:06

11.	He put his little spear back on the shelf… 00:06:28

12.	He went to the table… 00:05:17

13.	All my senses were now strained so tensely… 00:04:21

Disc 3

The Third Policeman

1.	CHAPTER 6 00:06:07

2.	What is your attitude to the high saddle' 00:07:17

3.	I said nothing… 00:06:07

4.	I looked carefully around me. 00:05:32

5.	Did you never see a bicycle leaning against the dresser…' 00:05:37

6.	CHAPTER 7 00:05:09

7.	Standing at a point on the postulated spherical earth… 00:05:10

8.	To say this was a surprise… 00:05:35

9.	Both of us sat silent for a while… 00:05:15

10.	The next important thing that happened… 00:06:30

11.	How long this eeriness lasted… 00:05:53

12.	What happened eventually was not a shout… 00:06:24

13.	The door was flung open and in came Gilhaney. 00:05:20

Disc 4

The Third Policeman

1.	CHAPTER 8 00:04:46

2.	As in many other of de Selby's concepts… 00:06:45

3.	These few words sickened me instantly with fear… 00:05:56

4.	He led the way to a door… 00:06:06

5.	My eye ranged round unsatisfied. 00:06:16

6.	I went carefully over to see what he was doing… 00:05:07

7.	The sergeant was already looming ahead… 00:05:58

8.	MacCruiskeen lit a match for our cigarettes… 00:05:22

9.	And so we did. 00:06:58

10.	We smoked in silence… 00:05:09

11.	As they wrangled on about sweets… 00:02:54

12.	CHAPTER 9 00:04:57

13.	Bassett and many of the other commentators… 00:04:09

Disc 5

The Third Policeman

1.	For the rest, little remains save the record… 00:04:40

2.	Water The word was in my ear… 00:03:31

3.	CHAPTER 10 00:04:15

4.	I was not at all pleased that this ghostly man… 00:04:29

5.	I thought it was a poor subject for conversation… 00:06:44

6.	I heard of a man once,' he said… 00:04:46

7.	Parts of this conversation came to me… 00:05:22

8.	For the first time, I had the courage to turn my head… 00:05:21

9.	CHAPTER 11 00:05:43

10.	Hatchjaw's friend, Harold Barge… 00:06:22

11.	I arose, and stretched my legs up and down the floor. 00:07:02

12.	In the next moment, I was fumbling for the barrack latch… 00:06:30

Disc 6

The Third Policeman

1.	I laid the bicycle gently against the gate pier… 00:05:13

2.	I stopped thinking, closing up my mind… 00:05:21

3.	I swung round in amazement… 00:05:21

4.	The great fat body in the uniform… 00:05:13

5.	He had now carefully blotted his work… 00:06:00

6.	He chuckled softly at the thought… 00:08:02

7.	CHAPTER 12 00:04:38

8.	There was nothing altogether unnatural in what I saw… 00:05:19

9.	A cold biting wind was sweeping in… 00:05:41

Total Playing Time: 06:43:10

Author(s):
O'Brien, Flann

Reader(s):
Norton, Jim

Label: Naxos AudioBooks

Genre: Classic Fiction

Period: 20th Century

Catalogue No: NA645512

Barcode: 9789626344552

Physical Release: 03/2007


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