by John Kennedy Toole · Editorial Anagrama · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788433966568
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«La Biblia de neón» is the novel by American John Kennedy Toole, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
David, a teenager living in a small community in the southern United States, grows up amid poverty and religious fanaticism. When his father loses his job, the family falls into disgrace: only his eccentric aunt Mae, a former singer, brings him joy. A romantic disappointment and a violent episode eventually push him to seek new horizons.
It is number 225 in Anagrama's Compactos collection, in its tenth edition, translated by Jordi Fibla Feito. The original title of the work is «The Neon Bible».
For readers of literary fiction and followers of John Kennedy Toole, also author of «La conjura de los necios».
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.
