by John Kennedy Toole · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433930149
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«La conjura de los necios» is the satirical novel by John Kennedy Toole, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Tragicomic novel set in New Orleans that follows Ignatius J. Reilly, an eccentric man in his thirties who lives with his mother and is forced to look for work to pay off a debt. Between absurd jobs and encounters with grotesque characters, the work satirizes the middle class, bureaucracy, and American society of the 1960s.
Volume 14 of the Panorama de narrativas collection. Published posthumously, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
Recommended for readers of black humor and social satire with unforgettable characters.
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.
