Flann O’Brien A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist Hardback: 978 1 85918 447 9 Price: $55.00 June 2009, 290 pp., Edition: Second Edition Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman , completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being “too fantastic”, and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O’Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, At Swim Two Birds (1939). By 1940, O’Brien was confronted