At SwimTwoBirds Author:Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. The story operates on many levels incorporating plots within plots, giving full rein to O'Brien's dancing intellect and Celtic wit. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories p... more »eopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, in a typical O'Brien conundrum, invents a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. 'Those mortifying stratagems collectively known as birth-control would become mere memory if parents and married couples could be assured that their legitimate diversion would straightaway result in finished breadwinners or marriageable daughters.'
Flann O'Briens's mastery of farce, satire and fantasy was remarkable and At Swim-Two-Birds is an unforgettable book.« less