Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents Swim-Two-Birds, (Paperback)
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Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents Swim-Two-Birds, (Paperback)
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from mackthefinger
This has been on my shelf for a while and I only got around to it during the recent snowfall. Took me a while to get into it, as it jumps around a bit to begin with, but I'm glad I stayed with it. Absurd and inventive, funny and irreverent, it had me in stitches. Take's the mickey out of a lot of...
from fourbears
One thing this book reminded me of was writing a rag called "The Cuckoo's Nest" when I was in grad school in the 70ies. It was a dittoed paper distributed throughout the English Department and the goal was riffing on "academic style". I wrote abstracts for fake papers, agenda for academic confere...
from HadriantheBlind
This was a lot of fun to read. It's not a novel in the traditional sense, but several stories mashed together, and the characters rebel from the author at one point and so forth and so forth. Cowboy stories, trials, and Irish mythology. It's almost confusing, but very entertaining. I'll be readin...
from DieFledermaus
This is just a really weird book. Quite interesting. The author uses some oddly formal prose, but not exactly sure the satire. There's a twisted metafiction plot, with characters plotting the overthrow of their author - all the story of a lazy college student. A lot of Irish history entwined with...
from slickdpdx
In the recent Dalkey reissue there is a nice intro from William Gass about O'Brien and the book. The book itself was a good read once I brought my expectations back to a reasonable level. It contains a wealth of decent to fine pastiche of Irish lit in addition to its structural shenanigans. Repre...
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