La Conjura De Los Necios/a Confederacy of Dunces

Hardcover, 464 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 5, 2006 by Quinteto.

ISBN:
978-84-96333-60-4
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OCLC Number:
63699970

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A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.The book's title refers to an epigram from Jonathan Swift's essay Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Its central character, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans who, in his quest for employment, …

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  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Fiction
  • Spanish: Adult Fiction
  • Classics
  • Literary