John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. He received a master's degree in English from, Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get his novel published; depressed by his failure to do so, he committed suicide. It is only through the tenacity of his mother, whose faith in her son's work never wavered, that his book has found its deserved audience. Penguin also publish his long suppressed novel The Neon Bible written when John Kennedy Toole was only sixteen.
A Confederacy of Dunces won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A Confederacy Of Dunces
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- Nombre de pages338
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.23 kg
- Dimensions12,9 cm × 19,8 cm × 1,7 cm
- ISBN0-14-118286-5
- EAN9780141182865
- Date de parution01/01/2000
- CollectionPenguin Classics
- ÉditeurPenguin Books
Résumé
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat. flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble Crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, filling his Big Chief tables with invective, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must go to work.
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