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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien





Aunque no existe prueba fehaciente de que O'Brien leyese la novela de Huxley antes de escribir At Swim-Two-Birds, este artículo trata de probar la existencia de conexiones formales entre ambos esqueletos metaficcionales llevando a cabo un análisis comparativo, con la conclusión final de que O'Brien había leído Point Counter Point casi con total certeza antes de escribir su primera novela e intuyó que las características autoreferenciales de la novela de Huxley podrían funcionar productivamente en su novela. Además de la existencia de referencias directas a Point Counter Point en la novela de O'Brien, el texto de Huxley hace uso de mecanismos metaficcionales similares a los diseñados por O'Brien. Este artículo cree firmemente que la cuarta novela de Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point (1928), es un elemento intertextual de importancia entre las muchas obras en las que O'Brien se inspiró mientras componía At Swim-Two-Birds.

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O

No obstante, se ha prestado poca atención a cómo diseñó el autor un armazón narrativo tan original. Tanto los críticos de la época como los actuales han recibido la novela como una obra maestra de la metaficción, relevante por su uso de la estructura narrativa mise en abyme, además de destacar sus anárquicos personajes y su bravuconería en parodiar el género épico. El escritor irlandés Brian O'Nolan, mejor conocido como Flann O'Brien (1911-1966), entre otros pseudónimos, publicó su primera novela, At Swim-Two-Birds, en 1939. Although there is no factual proof that O'Brien had read Huxley's novel before he wrote At Swim-Two-Birds, this article endeavours to prove the existence of formal links between both metafictional assemblages by means of a detailed comparative analysis, ultimately concluding that O'Brien had indeed read Point Counter Point before setting out to write his first novel and found the self-referential features of Huxley's work potentially productive. Apart from the presence of several direct references to Point Counter Point within O'Brien's novel, Huxley's text encompasses metafictional mechanisms that function in a similar way to those at work in O'Brien's novel.

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O

This article holds the belief that Huxley's fourth novel, Point Counter Point (1928), stands as a major intertext among the many literary sources O'Brien might have perused when composing At Swim-Two-Birds.

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O

However, little attention has been devoted to how such an innovative design was originally conceived by its author in the first place. Early reviewers and contemporary critics alike have hailed it as a metafictional masterpiece, relevant for its mise en abyme narrative structure, lawless characters and mock-epic bravado. Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, better known as Flann O'Brien (1911-1966), among other pseudonyms, published At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, in 1939.







At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien