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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 ...
More recent work, such as that of Maebh Long in Assembling Flann O’Brien and the edited collection Flann O’Brien and Modernism tend to view O’Brien as a modernist rather than a postmodernist. The critic Hugh Kenner, in a 1997 essay entitled "The Fourth Policeman", advanced a hypothesis to explain why O'Nolan had suppressed the manuscript.
Niall Sheridan (1912–1998) was an Irish poet, fiction-writer, and broadcaster, remembered primarily for his friendships with better-known Irish writers Brian O'Nolan (who published under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien) and Donagh MacDonagh.
At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien [2] The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien [3] Ficciones (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges [4] The Cannibal (1949) by John ...
Pages in category "Novels by Flann O'Brien" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. A. At Swim-Two-Birds; B. An Béal Bocht; D. The Dalkey Archive; H. The Hard ...
Dr. Thomas O’Brien and his wife Ruth Reardon O’Brien, the parents of late night comedian Conan O’Brien, have died three days apart. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92.
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 ...