by John Kennedy Toole · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422691662
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel by American author John Kennedy Toole, published posthumously in 1980. The story follows Ignatius J. Reilly, an eccentric and obese character who lives in New Orleans with his mother. Ignatius is forced to find work to help his mother, which leads him to a series of comical and absurd situations as he interacts with various characters in the city. The novel is a satire of modern society and an exploration of individuality and alienation.
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.
