At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
2020-07-02 18:29:24
An indolent college student creates a chaotic fictional world in this classic of Irish literature: âA marvel of imagination, language, and humorâ (New Republic). In this comic masterpiece, our unnamed narratorâa student at University C...
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An indolent college student creates a chaotic fictional world in this classic of Irish literature: âA marvel of imagination, language, and humorâ (New Republic). In this comic masterpiece, our unnamed narratorâa student at University College, Dublin, who spends more time drinking and working on his novel than attending classesâcreates a character, a pub owner named Trellis, who himself is devoted mainly to writing and sleeping. Soon Trellis is collaborating with an author of cowboy romances, and from there unspools a brilliantly unpredictable adventure that James Joyce himself called âa really funny book.â ââTis the odd joke of modern Irish literatureâof the three novelists in its holy trinity, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann OâBrien, the easiest and most accessible of the lot is OâBrien. . . . Flann OâBrien was too much his own man, Irelandâs man, to speak in any but his own tongue.â âThe Washington Post âAs with Scott Fitzgerald, there is a brilliant ease in [OâBrienâs] prose, a poignant grace glimmering off every page.â âJohn Updike âOne of the best books of our century.â âGraham Greene
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