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Re: Flann O'Brien (fwd)
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From: Patrick Nolan <pnolan@animalwelfare.com>
In a cursory glance through indexes, etcetera, I've not seen anything
indicating VN knew O'Brien's wonderful, wonderful work.
Christopher Berg wrote:
> the issue of authorial identification (possibly even more
> >convulted in the case of the O'Brien than in PF -- if that's
> possible).
Yes yes, Brian O Nolan (I dearly wish I could say we're related) used
a bevy of pseudonyms, Flann O'Brien among them. He wore many masks; _At
Swim-Two-Birds_ is a tangle of narratological playfulness and invention.
On second thought, the issue of pseudonymity is tempting. Perhaps
O'Brien, Joyce and Nabokov are actually the same person--all, of course,
created by John Shade.
Patrick Nolan
In a cursory glance through indexes, etcetera, I've not seen anything
indicating VN knew O'Brien's wonderful, wonderful work.
Christopher Berg wrote:
> the issue of authorial identification (possibly even more
> >convulted in the case of the O'Brien than in PF -- if that's
> possible).
Yes yes, Brian O Nolan (I dearly wish I could say we're related) used
a bevy of pseudonyms, Flann O'Brien among them. He wore many masks; _At
Swim-Two-Birds_ is a tangle of narratological playfulness and invention.
On second thought, the issue of pseudonymity is tempting. Perhaps
O'Brien, Joyce and Nabokov are actually the same person--all, of course,
created by John Shade.
Patrick Nolan