More on irony

JULIAN BARNES reviews Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles, and mentions this kind of irony:

Flaubertian irony whereby anticipation and remembrance...often prove more vivid and reliable than the moment itself.

Nice review, by the way. (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Zoe Williams writes The final irony, which I didn't actually find all that helpful. (via Butterflies and Wheels)