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ISBN: 9780241951590
Sumérgete en el hilarante y satírico mundo de Ignatius J. Reilly en 'A Confederacy of Dunces'. Esta novela sigue las desventuras de Ignatius en la Nueva Orleans de los años 60, un personaje obeso, elocuente y desempleado que se considera un genio incomprendido. A través de situaciones cómicas y personajes excéntricos, John Kennedy Toole ofrece una crítica mordaz de la sociedad estadounidense, explorando temas como la alienación, la corrupción y la búsqueda de sentido en un mundo absurdo. Con un estilo único y un humor negro, esta obra maestra te hará reír a carcajadas mientras reflexionas sobre la condición humana.
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.
