by John Kennedy Toole · Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433920423
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«La conjura de los necios» is the novel of humour and social satire by John Kennedy Toole, published by Anagrama in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Ignatius J. Reilly, a cultured and eccentric thirty-year-old man who lives with his mother in New Orleans, is forced to look for work after her car accident. Contact with the working world and the city streets unleashes a succession of comic and grotesque situations. It is a social satire with mordant humour and a gallery of unpleasant characters.
It belongs to Anagrama's Compactos collection (number 38). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, published posthumously. Original title: A Confederacy of Dunces.
For readers who enjoy social satire, acid humour and the great characters of American fiction.
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.
