A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.

I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delightA masterwork of comedy * New York Times *
A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from -- Anthony Burgess
Every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right * Rolling Stone *

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved.

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ISBN 13	9780241951590
ISBN 10	0241951593
Titel	A Confederacy of Dunces
Autor	John Kennedy Toole
Serie	Penguin Essentials
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-04-07
Seitenanzahl	416
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