by John Kennedy Toole · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433915184
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A Confederacy of Dunces is John Kennedy Toole's posthumous masterpiece, unanimously recognized as an essential author in the tradition of Cervantes, Fielding, Swift, Rabelais, and Dickens. The protagonist of this novel is one of the most memorable characters in American literature: Ignatius J. Reilly, a cocktail of Oliver Hardy delirious, Quixote adipose and perverse Thomas Aquinas, who at thirty still lives with his outlandish mother while writing a devastating denunciation against the twentieth century. Due to an unexpected need for money, he is catapulted into the midst of the disorder of contemporary existence and embarked on the most absurd jobs.
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.
