by John Kennedy Toole · PENGUIN BOOKS LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182865
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Dive into the hilarious and satirical world of Ignatius J. Reilly, an unforgettable character from New Orleans. In 'A Confederacy of Dunces', John Kennedy Toole introduces us to a crusader against modernity, an obese and eccentric individual who confronts the world with a mixture of arrogance and despair. Join Ignatius in his job search and his comical misadventures as he tries to impose his peculiar vision of the world on a society he considers full of 'dunces'. This Penguin Modern Classics edition invites you to discover a masterpiece of American literature, full of humor, irony, and a profound reflection on the human condition.
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, he wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he shelved in the same year, not finding a willing publisher; he later dismissed it as "adolescent". Toole was a successful and popular professor, first at University of Southwestern Louisiana, then Hunter College, and finally St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans. Having persuaded Simon & Schuster, however, to accept A Confederacy of Dunces, he was unable to resolve editorial disputes. Due in part to the novel's failure, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
