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by John Kennedy Toole · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · 392 pages
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Una confabulació d'imbècils es la obra maestra póstuma de John Kennedy Toole, reconocido unánimemente como un autor imprescindible en la tradición de Cervantes, Fielding, Swift, Rabelais y Dickens. El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius J. Reilly, un cóctel de Oliver Hardy delirante, Quijote adiposo y Tomás de Aquino perverso, que con treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre mientras escribe una denuncia demoledora contra el siglo XX. A causa de una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve catapultado al medio del desorden de la existencia contemporánea y embarcado en trabajos de lo más absurdo.
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.
