The Third Policeman Erotic Awakening to the Great Sleep

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José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) was one of the most important Cuban writers of the twentieth century

through the lives of a couple seen by different narrators

The Third Policeman Erotic Awakening to the Great Sleepby Flann O'Brien Introduction by Denis Donoghue The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the