Author: Flann O’Brien
Date: 1967
Genre: Comedy, Absurdist, Philosophical Novel
Country: Ireland
A surreal, dark comic novel following an unnamed narrator who murders a man for money to fund his study of a bizarre philosopher, de Selby. After the crime, he enters a nightmarish, dreamlike world where he interacts with eccentric policemen, encounters a “bicycle-human” theory, and discovers he is already dead.