by John Kennedy Toole · Rba · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447300068
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«La conjura de los necios» is the satirical novel by John Kennedy Toole, published by RBA in hardback (360 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Ignatius J. Reilly, an eccentric, cultured, unemployed man in his thirties who lives with his outlandish mother in New Orleans. An unexpected need for money drives him to seek work and clash with contemporary life, which he despises for its lack of theology and good taste. This leads to absurd jobs and a corrosive satire of American society.
Posthumous work originally published in 1980, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Belongs to the Narrativa actual collection (no. 5); translation by J. M. Álvarez Flórez and Ángela Pérez.
For lovers of satire and classic American fiction; notable for its humour and its portrait of New Orleans.
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.
