by John Kennedy Toole · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241951590
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«A Confederacy of Dunces» is the satirical novel by John Kennedy Toole, published by Penguin in 2011 in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, cultured, and unemployed man who believes himself a misunderstood genius, roams 1960s New Orleans in a pirate costume and a hot dog cart. Among eccentric characters and absurd situations, the novel portrays the corruption and decay of American society.
«A Confederacy of Dunces» is part of the Penguin Essentials collection (number 15). Originally published in 1980, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
Suitable for book clubs and for those seeking American literary classics with a satirical tone.
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.
