Author: Flann O’Brien
Date: 1939
Genre: Postmodern
Country: Ireland
It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. At Swim-Two-Birds presents itself as a first-person story by an unnamed Irish student of literature. The student believes that “one beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with”, and he accordingly sets three apparently quite separate stories in motion.