by John Kennedy Toole · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433931672
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The Neon Bible is a novel by John Kennedy Toole set in the American South in the 1940s. The story follows David, a young man growing up in a small town where religious fanaticism and hypocrisy are commonplace. Through David's eyes, Toole explores themes such as the loss of innocence, alienation, and the search for meaning in an oppressive world. The novel is a scathing critique of Southern society and the destructive influence of religion and prejudice.
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.
