'We have had books inside books before but O'Nolan [O'Brien] takes Pirandello and Gide a long way further. The screw is turned until you have (a) a book about a man called Trellis who is (b) writing a book about certain characters who (c) are turning the tables on Trellis and writing a book about him.' - Graham Greene.
First published in America in an edition of 3,000 copies twleve years after the English edition on the recommendation of James Johnson Sweeney, an Irish-American collector of James Joyce manuscripts. Joyce himself had remarked about it, 'That's a real writer, with the true comic spirit. A really funny book.'
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