by John Kennedy Toole · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433976161
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«La conjura de los necios» is the picaresque novel by John Kennedy Toole, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (392 pages, in Spanish).
Set in New Orleans, the novel follows Ignatius Reilly, an eccentric man in his thirties who lives with his mother and writes a diatribe against the twentieth century. Forced by lack of money, he enters the working world and strings together absurd jobs, while crossing paths with outlandish characters who turn his journey into an over-the-top comedy.
Volume 35 of the Otra vuelta de tuerca collection, translated by José Manuel Álvarez Flórez and Ángela Pérez. Posthumous work awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
For readers of literary humor and modern classics, and for those who appreciate satire and eccentric characters.
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.
