At Swim-Two-Birds

…celebrated for his unusual novel At Swim-Two-Birds, which, though it was first published in 1939, achieved fame only after its republication in 1960. At Swim-Two-Birds is a rich literary experiment that combines Irish folklore, heroic legend, humour, and poetry in a style replete with linguistic games; on its publication it…

…copy of his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), to Joyce. “That’s a real writer with a true comic spirit,” Joyce remarked. At Swim-Two-Birds, a book about books within a book, mixes and subverts genres—from cheap American westerns to Irish myths—and sports multiple narratives and characters never entirely under the control…