#SundayLit Prompt: Physical appearance

Flann O’Brien’s description of Fionn mac Cumhaill is the mic-drop for physical appearance depictions in literature.

#FinnMacCool #FionnMacCumhall #FlannOBrien #BrianONolan

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen died on 1st April 1966 in Dublin. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following both for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #MylesNagCopaleen #BrianONolan #OnThisDay

Foilsíodh 'At Swim-Two-Birds', úrscéal le Brian Ó Nualláin, den chéad uair ar 13ú lá de Mhí an Mhárta 1939.

At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #BrianONolan #AtSwimTwoBirds #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

There are three #modernist #writers whose #ShortStories remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:

* #SamuelClemens/ #MarkTwain.
* #BrianONolan/ #FlannOBrien/ #MilesNaGopaleen.
* #HermanCharlesBosman.

Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.

#JosephConrad fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.

There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen died on 1st April 1966 in Dublin. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following both for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #MylesNagCopaleen #BrianONolan #OnThisDay

At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin), writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #BrianONolan #AtSwimTwoBirds

At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #BrianONolan #AtSwimTwoBirds