by John Kennedy Toole · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422616887
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«La conjura de los necios» is the novel by John Kennedy Toole published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (335 pages, in Spanish).
Ignatius J. Reilly, a singular thirtysomething, lives with his mother in New Orleans while writing an extensive denunciation of an age he deems lacking in theology and good taste. When a financial setback forces him to earn a living, his clash with the contemporary world unleashes absurd situations.
Posthumous novel; the original version, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
For readers of humorous fiction and classics of American literature.
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.
