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At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction .
Flann O'Brien is a very great man." Burgess included At Swim-Two-Birds on his list of Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939. At Swim-Two-Birds has had a troubled publication history in the USA. Southern Illinois University Press has set up a Flann O'Brien Center and begun publishing all of O'Brien's works. Consequently, academic ...
At Swim, Two Boys (2001) is a novel by Irish writer Jamie O'Neill. The title is a punning allusion to Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds . The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style , which has led to favourable comparisons to James Joyce .
At Swim 2 Birds is a collaborative album by Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie, released in 1987 through Flying Nun Records. Its title may reference the novel of the same name . Track listing
He released multiple recordings, including two LPs — 1969 Till God Knows When, and Quigley's Point. The latter recorded as 'At Swim Two Birds', the name taken from the book of the same name by the Irish novelist, Flann O'Brien. Quigley died suddenly on 18 August 2020. An obituary was published two weeks later in the Guardian. [2] [3]
Two Birds, a 2008 Icelandic film; Two Birds with the Wings of One, 2006 ballet by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux; At Swim-Two-Birds, a 1939 novel by Brian O'Nolan; One Stone and Two Birds, a 2005 Taiwanese film; Two Birds, a 2017 album by Trixie Mattel "Two Birds", a song from the 2009 album Far by Regina Spektor.
In 1940, O'Nolan completed the novel and circulated the typescript among friends in Dublin. He submitted it to Longman's, the English publisher of his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, but they declined to publish it. [29] O'Nolan believed that Graham Greene, who had been a champion of his at Longman, was still a reader with the company, but he ...
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