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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 ...
He is represented closely by the character of Brinsley in O'Nolan's At Swim-Two-Birds, a highly literate fellow student of the narrator described as "an intellectual Meath-man; given to close-knit epigrammatic talk."
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 .
De Selby with a canister of "night", as illustrated by John Farson. De Selby (spelled "de Selby" in The Third Policeman and "De Selby" in The Dalkey Archive) is a fictional character originally created by Flann O'Brien for his novel The Third Policeman, in which the nameless narrator intends to use the proceeds of murder and robbery to publish his commentaries on de Selby – a savant who ...
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]
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
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