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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 curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin and spends far too much time drinking with his frien...

Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century.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...

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With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print.

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From one of Ireland's greatest modernists and author of AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS, a novel of pure and ruthless wit, woven around the tale of two orphaned Dubliners.

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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 curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin and spends far too much time drinking with his frien...

Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its "characters" St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby.

An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O'Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented works to the reading public under a variety of pseudonyms. Spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O'Nolan...

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Un giovane irlandese alla ricerca della propria realizzazione nel mondo, dopo molteplici incontri e varie vicende decide, come si conviene, di sposare la sua fidanzata e avere da lei molti bambini. Il protagonista vive le sue avventure passeggiando nei luoghi da cui Flann O'Brien non si allontanò mai: Dublino e i suoi immediati dintorni che, come nella migliore tradizione irlandese, non sono soltanto simbolo del mondo, ma anche e soprattutto f...

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