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by John Kennedy Toole · Anagrama · tapa blanda · 392 pages
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La conjura de los necios es una novela disparatada, ácida e inteligentísima del autor John Kennedy Toole. La historia sigue a Ignatius J. Reilly, un personaje único y extravagante que vive en Nueva Orleans y se enfrenta a la sociedad con una mezcla de genialidad y descontento. La novela es una sátira social que critica la cultura contemporánea y explora temas como la alienación, la búsqueda de sentido y la lucha contra la mediocridad. Con un humor mordaz y personajes inolvidables, esta obra es considerada un clásico moderno de la literatura.
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.
