At Swim-Two-Birds
Author: Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien’s innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics.Flann O’Brien’s first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudge….Read More
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