Ebook {Epub PDF} At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann OBrien

Complete Novels: At Swim-two-birds, the Third Policeman, the Poor Mouth, the Hard Life, the Dalkey Archive. Donohue, Keith; O'brien, Flann; Donohue, Keith (int); Flann O'brien, Flann O'brien. Published by Everyman's Library, ISBN ISBN Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A. In a letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was At Swim-Two-Birds--and if we take queer to mean diabolically eccentric, then truer words were never spoken. The author, whose real name was Brian O'Nolan, had successfully stirred Gaelic legend, pulp fiction, and grimy Dublin realism into a hilarious Cited by: At Swim-To-Birds is a novel by Irish author Brian O’Nolan under the non de plueme Flann O’Brien. At one time, he also used a pen name Myles na Coppaleen (Myles of the Little Horses) taken from the character in Dion Boucicault’s play The Colleen Bawn/5.

AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien. When At Swim-Two-Birds was published in , James Joyce was encouraging, calling the young author "a real writer, with the true comic spirit" (a spirit in short supply in the war-birthing world of ), but Dylan Thomas won the battle of the blurbs when he said of this novel, "This is just the book to give. At Swim-Two-Birds is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'www.doorway.ru is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.. The novel's title derives from Snám dá Én (Middle Irish: "The narrow water of the two birds"; Modern Irish: Snámh Dá Éan), an ancient ford on the River Shannon, between. Thus, At Swim-Two-Birds comprises four fictional frameworks: Flann O'Brien's novel about the student narrator, which contains the narrator's novel about the pub-keeper Dermot Trellis.

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