by John Kennedy Toole · Cahoba · tapa dura · ISBN 9788493455729
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after Toole's death. The novel is set in New Orleans and follows Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-proclaimed intellectual who lives with his mother and embarks on a series of adventures as he tries to find work.
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.
