From the author of the classic novel ‘At-Swim-Two-Birds’ comes this ingenious tale

which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determined to destroy the world. Flann O''Brien''s third novel, The Dalkey Archive, is a riotous depiction of the extraordinary events surrounding theologian and mad scientist De Selby''s attempt to destroy the world by removing all the oxygen from the atmosphere.

Only Michael Shaughnessy, a lowly civil servant, and James Joyce, alive and well and working as a barman in the nearby seaside resort of Skerries, can stop the inimitable De Selby in his tracks.