At Swim-Two-Birds
O'Brien, Flann
1911-1966
creator
text
enk
London
Penguin Books
2017
2000
First published in 1939.
monographic
eng
227 p. : 21 cm.
Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in bed he likes to invent wild stories peoples with hilarious and unlikely characters - but somehow his creations won't do what he wants them to. A dazzling work of farce, satire, folklore and absurdity that gives full rein to its author's dancing intellect and Celtic wit, At Swim-Two-Birds is both a brilliant comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, and a portrayal of Dublin to compare with Joyce's Ulysses.
by Flann O'Brien.
First published in 1939. Published in Penguin Books 1967.
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