by John Kennedy Toole, Carles Llorach · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788422630647
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«La Bíblia de neó» is the novel by John Kennedy Toole translated by Carles Llorach, published by Cercle de Lectors in hardcover (140 pages, in Catalan).
David grows up in a small town in the American South in the 1940s. With a naive and sharp voice, the novel follows his passage into adolescence: the discovery of first love, the poverty of his surroundings, and the weight of a community marked by religious fervor that evokes the neon sign of the title.
Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1989; this Catalan edition is from 1990.
For readers interested in classics of American Southern literature and coming-of-age novels with an adolescent voice.
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.
