Limbo: from Finnegans wake to At Swim-Two-Birds. (Literature).(Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two Birds')(Critical Essay)

From: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of EnglishStudies | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Gilbert Sorrentino dedicated his 1979 novel Mulligan stew to Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), his "virtue hilaritas". This dedication is followed by epigraphs from O'Brien and Joyce. The O'Brien's epigraph is a quotation from his 1940 novel The third policeman. It is however O'Brien's 1939 novel At Swim-Two-Birds that provided Sorrentino with a model for his Mulligan stew and Joyce's presence hangs behind both novels: At Swim-Two-Birds and Mulligan stew. (1) Joyce is said to have admired At Swim-Two-Birds and allowed himself to be quoted in a blurb for its first edition. The 1967 ...

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