Flann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.



O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century. The novel s narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories. The riotous cas ...