Too nice a topic to let die, people.
Flann O'Brien, "The Poor Mouth". O'Brien is my absolute favourite Irish author, and The Poor Mouth is the best work of his that I have come across (granted, I'm yet to read At Swim-Two-Birds). The way he mocks the traditional maximisation of misery in the Irish literature is fantastic, and the wit of the text made me feel pretty inadequate.
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