by Flann O'Brien · Heyne Bücher · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453064089
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«In Schwimmen - zwei - Vögel» is the comic novel by Flann O'Brien, published by Heyne Bücher in paperback (333 pages, in German).
A young Irish student, idle and fond of drink, lives with his uncle in Dublin and writes a wild novel about a mediocre writer whose characters rebel against him. With nods to Irish mythology, the work parodies Irish literature and culture and has influenced several generations of writers.
The work was first published in 1939 as At Swim-Two-Birds; the German translation dates from 1993.
A classic of Irish literature for readers of absurd humour, literary satire and Celtic mythology.
Brian O'Nolan, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, was an Irish Civil Service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His four English-language novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967), were published under the pen name Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish-language novel, An Béal Bocht (1941), were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.
