The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
An Exegesis of Squalor
A mordant comic portrait of Dublin life that follows two long-suffering schoolteachers whose petty ambitions, failed romances and endless encounters with officious clergy and petty bureaucrats expose the hypocrisy and smallness of the institutions that shape them. Through a string of farcical episodes and mournful flashbacks the narrator recounts shabby rooms, bungled schemes to improve social standing and the ways religion, education and family leave the men trapped between aspiration and squalor, producing black humor that mixes satire with genuine melancholy.
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- Published
- 1961
- Nationality
- Irish
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- Original Language
- English
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