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The Dalkey Archive

Name: The Dalkey Archive
Author: Flann O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

The Dalkey Archive is a 1964 novel by the Irish writer Flann O'Brien. It is his fifth and final novel, published two years before his death. It was adapted for the stage by Hugh Leonard in 1965 as The Saints Go Cycling In.

“Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.”

Flann O'Brien book The Dalkey Archive

"The Dalkey archive" (1964)
Source: The Dalkey Archive

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