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At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

Paperback | Pages: 239 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 11150 Users | 814 Reviews

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Original Title:	At Swim-Two-Birds
ISBN:	156478181X (ISBN13: 9781564781819)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ireland

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A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing. Hilariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, opening up new possibilities for what can be done in fiction. It is a true masterpiece of Irish literature.

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Title	:	At Swim-Two-Birds
Author	:	Flann O'Brien
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 239 pages
Published	:	August 17th 1998 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Classics. Novels

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A Review Composed of Interrogatives and SpeculationsWhat are we to make of At Swim-Two-Birds? Despite the fact of its being one of the laugh-out-loud funniest, most absurdly and grossly comedic, most intelligent novels Ive ever read, At Swim-Two-Birds is simultaneously profoundly cruel, cruelly profound, unsettling, and causes such a discord with the idea of imaginative reality and authority in fiction that I would say that the overall effect of reading the book is something akin to a blend of

Just found your August comment today, Laura. Thanks for the tips on other writers who play around with their plots and characters as Flann O'Brien

"Evil is even, truth is an odd number, and death is a full stop."- Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-BirdsFirst, this is one of my favorite recent novels. I loved it. I loved its playfulness, originality, energy, discursiveness, absurdity. I loved the fugues of dialogue, the interruptions, insertions, the confusion of characters, the meta-fiction of youth. There were parts where I was quoting or reciting paragraphs, lines and poems from almost every page to my wife. Except with the poems, this proved

A story within a novel-in-progress within a frame narrative compounded with an interlocking series of jests.

"Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop. When a dog barks late at night and then retires again to bed, he punctuates and gives majesty to the serial enigma of the dark, laying it more evenly and heavily upon the fabric of the mind." (314)Nature of the review: glib, perfunctory, obtuse, bulbous Extract from the reviewer's review: One of the funniest and maddest novels I've ever read. This thing [the book, At Swim-Two-Birds] does not need me to recommend it, but I might give

Inmates In Charge of the AsylumNovelists are, of course, fraudsters. They make a living by telling lies just enough like the truth to be credible and passing that off as work. Of course it isnt work, but mostly boozing and collecting daft comments made by other people, mostly other writers as it turns out. They even turn their plagiarism into a principle of artistic technique: Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be

This is a seriously lovely inch perfect parabola of joy which everyone ought to at least try. Go on! You know you want to. All right, you didn't know you wanted to. But i know you better than that! Would I lie? How long have we known each other now? Well then, have I ever recommended a duff book? Name one. There, you can't. I admit that At Swim Two birds won't be everybody's slice of schwarzwälder kirschtorte. Probably some will stumble away pallid and looking like they've spent a week with a