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About this Item: Editorial Anagrama, S.A., 1994. Condition: New. La Conjura De Los Necios es una disparatada, ácida e inteligentísima novela. Pero no sólo eso, también es tremendamente divertida y amarga a la vez. La carcajada escapa por sí sola ante las situaciones desproporcionadas de esta gran tragicomedia. Ignatius J. Really es, probablemente, uno de los mejores personajes jamás creados y al que muchos no dudan en comparar con el Quijote. Más aún, es el antiprotagonista perfecto para una novela repleta de excelentes personajes, situados en la portuaria ciudad de Nueva Orleans, magistral Ignatius. Él es un incomprendido, una persona de treinta y pocos años que vive en la casa de su madre y que lucha por lograr un mundo mejor desde el interior de su habitación. Pero cruelmente se verá arrastrado a vagar por las calles de Nueva Orleans en busca de trabajo, obligado a adentrarse en la sociedad, con la que mantiene una relación de repulsión mutua, para poder sufragar los gastos causados por su madre en un accidente de coche mientras conducía ebria. El autor, John K. Toole, consigue una crítica clase media. Logra mantener el interés del lector (incluso mayor en una segunda lectura que en la primera) con un abanico de personajes a cuál más desagradable. No deja títere con cabeza y, a través de la tortuosa y enrevesada personalidad de Ignatius, da un repaso a la época que le tocó vivir en un tono de burla que contrasta con la triste visión de las vidas de los personajes retratados. No encontramos únicamente una loca y angustiosa historia de crítica social, sino que el argumento engancha desde el comienzo. Momento en el que, como dice su protagonista, Fortuna hace girar su rueda hacia abajo y nunca sabemos cual es la desagradable sorpresa que nos depara el destino. A partir de aquí, unas situaciones enganchan con otras, al igual que lo van haciendo los personajes, y se va formando una enorme bola de nieve que terminará estallando al final de la novela. Tras terminar La Conjura De Los Necios, a sus 32 años, el autor intentó infructuosamente que la publicasen. Ello derivó en una profunda depresión que le condujo al suicidio. Gracias a la tenacidad e insistencia de su madre hoy podemos disfrutar de esta deliciosa obra galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer. También podemos encontrar publicada La Biblia De Neón, novela escrita cuando el autor tenía 16 años. *** Nota: EL COSTE DE ENVÍO A CANARIAS ES 11.49 EUROS. Si ha realizado un pedido con destino a CANARIAS no podemos hacer el envío con el coste actual. Nos pondremos en contacto con usted para comunicar el coste total del envío a Canarias y si está de acuerdo, Abebooks le efectuará el cargo adicional. Seller Inventory # 61796
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Newly WardellThis book is so vivid that you can practically smell New Orleans. Toole's Ignatius is intellectualism gone wrong. When I pontificate about the virtue…moreThis book is so vivid that you can practically smell New Orleans. Toole's Ignatius is intellectualism gone wrong. When I pontificate about the virtue of science fiction or feverishly debate the merits of one quarterback over another during fantasy football season, I see Ignatius in me. It is usually at this time that I step off the soapbox.
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Dolores Andral'Ooo-wee'and 'whoa' got tiring really fast. But every character was painted with such broad-strokes buffoonery it's hard to just focus on that…more'Ooo-wee'and 'whoa' got tiring really fast. But every character was painted with such broad-strokes buffoonery it's hard to just focus on that character. I mean, homosexuals must me writhing in their skin with the type of singular one-dimensional characterization Mr. Toole gave them.
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Learn moreAuthor | John Kennedy Toole |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Comedy, tragicomedy |
Published | 1980 (Louisiana State University Press) |
Media type | Print (hardback, paperback), audiobook, e-book |
Pages | 405 pp (paperback)[1] |
ISBN | 0-8071-0657-7 |
OCLC | 5336849 |
813/.5/4 | |
LC Class | PS3570.O54 C66 1980 |
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.[2] Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, 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.[3]
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, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Toole wrote the novel in 1963 during his last few months in Puerto Rico.
- 1Major characters
Major characters[edit]
Ignatius J. Reilly[edit]
Ignatius Jacques Reilly is something of a modern Don Quixote—eccentric, idealistic, and creative, sometimes to the point of delusion.[2] In his foreword to the book, Walker Percy describes Ignatius as a 'slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one'. He disdains modernity, particularly pop culture. The disdain becomes his obsession: he goes to movies in order to mock their perversity and express his outrage with the contemporary world's lack of 'theology and geometry'. He prefers the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages, and the Early Medieval philosopher Boethius in particular.[4] However, he also enjoys many modern comforts and conveniences and is given to claiming that the rednecks of rural Louisiana hate all modern technology, which they associate with progress. The workings of his pyloric valve play an important role in his life, reacting strongly to incidents in a fashion that he likens to Cassandra in terms of prophetic significance.[5]
Ignatius is of the mindset that he does not belong in the world and that his numerous failings are the work of some higher power. He continually refers to the goddess Fortuna as having spun him downwards on her wheel of fortune. Ignatius loves to eat, and his masturbatory fantasies lead in strange directions. His mockery of obscene images is portrayed as a defensive posture to hide their titillating effect on him. Although considering himself to have an expansive and learned worldview, Ignatius has an aversion to ever leaving the town of his birth, and frequently bores friends and strangers with the story of his sole, abortive journey out of New Orleans, a trip to Baton Rouge on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, which Ignatius recounts as a traumatic ordeal of extreme horror.
Myrna Minkoff[edit]
Myrna Minkoff, referred to by Ignatius as 'that minx', is a Jewishbeatnik from New York City, whom Ignatius met while she was in college in New Orleans.[2] Though their political, social, religious, and personal orientations could hardly be more different, Myrna and Ignatius fascinate one another. The novel repeatedly refers to Myrna and Ignatius having engaged in tag-team attacks on the teachings of their college professors. How to install fivereborn. For most of the novel, she is seen only in the regular correspondence which the two sustain since her return to New York, a correspondence heavily weighted with sexual analysis on the part of Myrna and contempt for her apparent sacrilegious activity by Ignatius. Officially, they both deplore everything the other stands for. Though neither of them will admit it, their correspondence indicates that, separated though they are by half a continent, many of their actions are meant to impress one another.
Irene Reilly[edit]
Mrs. Irene Reilly is the mother of Ignatius. She has been widowed for 21 years. At first, she allows Ignatius his space and drives him where he needs to go, but throughout the course of the novel she learns to stand up for herself. She also has a drinking problem, most frequently indulging in muscatel, although Ignatius exaggerates that she is a raving, abusive drunk.[2]
She falls for Claude Robichaux, a fairly well-off man with a railroad pension and rental properties. At the end of the novel, she decides she will marry Claude. But first, she agrees with Santa Battaglia (who has not only recently become Mrs. Reilly's new best friend, but also harbors an intense dislike for Ignatius) that Ignatius is insane and arranges to have him sent to a mental hospital.
Others[edit]
- Santa Battaglia, a 'grammaw' who is friends with Mrs. Reilly, and has a marked disdain for Ignatius
- Claude Robichaux, an old man constantly on the lookout for any 'communiss' who might infiltrate America; he takes an interest in protecting Irene
- Angelo Mancuso, an inept police officer, the nephew of Santa Battaglia
- Lana Lee, a pornographic model who runs the 'Night Of Joy', a downscale French Quarter strip club
- George, Lana's distributor who sells photographs of her to high-school children of his age
- Darlene, a goodhearted but none-too-bright girl, who aspires to be a 'Night Of Joy' stripper, with a pet cockatoo
- Burma Jones, black janitor for the 'Night Of Joy' who holds on to his below-minimum wage job only to avoid being arrested for vagrancy
- Mr. Clyde, the frustrated owner of Paradise Vendors, a hot dog vendor business
- Gus Levy, the owner of Levy Pants, a family business in the Bywater neighborhood
- Mrs. Levy, Gus's wife, who attempts to psychoanalyze her husband and Miss Trixie despite being completely unqualified to do so
- Miss Trixie, an aged clerk at Levy Pants who suffers from dementia and compulsive hoarding
- Mr. Gonzalez, the meek office manager at Levy Pants
- Dorian Greene, a flamboyant French Quarter homosexual who puts on elaborate parties
- Frieda Club, Betty Bumper, and Liz Steele, a trio of aggressive lesbians who run afoul of Ignatius
- Dr. Talc, a mediocre professor at Tulane who had the misfortune of teaching Myrna and Ignatius
- Miss Annie, the disgruntled neighbor of the Reillys who professes an addiction to headache medicine
Ignatius at the movies[edit]
Toole provides comical descriptions of two of the films Ignatius watches without naming them; they can be recognized as Billy Rose's Jumbo and That Touch of Mink, both Doris Day features released in 1962.[6] In another passage, Ignatius declines to see another film, a 'widely praised Swedish drama about a man who was losing his soul'. This is most likely Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light, also released in 1962. In another passage, Irene Reilly recalls the night Ignatius was conceived: after she and her husband viewed Red Dust, released in October 1932.[7]
Confederacy and New Orleans[edit]
Canal Street, New Orleans in the late 1950s; the D. H. Holmes store at right
A 'Lucky Dogs' cart from the era of the novel
The book is famous for its rich depiction of New Orleans and the city's dialects, including Yat.[8][9] Many locals and writers think that it is the best and most accurate depiction of the city in a work of fiction.[10]
The city described in the novel differs in some ways from the actual New Orleans. The first chapter mentions the sun setting over the Mississippi River at the foot of Canal Street. As this direction is to the south-east, this is impossible in reality. Possibly this is a joke by Toole related to the fact that the area across the river is known as the 'West Bank', despite the fact that because of the twists of the river it is actually to the south or east from parts of central New Orleans. Such details are not likely to be noticed by people who are not familiar with New Orleans.
A bronze statue of Ignatius J. Reilly can be found under the clock on the down-river side of the 800 block of Canal Street, New Orleans, the former site of the D. H. Holmes Department Store, now the Hyatt French Quarter Hotel. The statue mimics the opening scene: Ignatius waits for his mother under the D.H. Holmes clock, clutching a Werlein's shopping bag, dressed in a hunting cap, flannel shirt, baggy pants and scarf, 'studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste.' The statue is modeled on New Orleans actor John 'Spud' McConnell, who portrayed Ignatius in a stage version of the novel.
Various local businesses are mentioned in addition to D. H. Holmes, including Werlein's Music Store and local cinemas such as the Prytania Theater. Some readers from elsewhere assume Ignatius's favorite soft drink, Dr. Nut, to be fictitious, but it was an actual local soft drink brand of the era. The 'Paradise Hot Dogs' vending carts are an easily recognized satire of those actually branded 'Lucky Dogs'.
Structure[edit]
The structure of A Confederacy of Dunces reflects the structure of Ignatius's favorite book, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.[11] Like Boethius' book, A Confederacy of Dunces is divided into chapters that are further divided into a varying number of subchapters. Key parts of some chapters are outside of the main narrative. In Consolation, sections of narrative prose alternate with metrical verse. In Confederacy, such narrative interludes vary more widely in form and include light verse, journal entries by Ignatius, and also letters between himself and Myrna. A copy of the Consolation of Philosophy within the narrative itself also becomes an explicit plot device in several ways.
The difficult path to publication[edit]
As outlined in the introduction to a later revised edition, the book would never have been published if Toole's mother had not found a smeared carbon copy of the manuscript left in the house following Toole's 1969 suicide, at 31. She was persistent and tried several different publishers, to no avail.
Thelma repeatedly called Walker Percy, an author and college instructor at Loyola University New Orleans, to demand for him to read it. He initially resisted; however, as he recounts in the book's foreword:
..the lady was persistent, and it somehow came to pass that she stood in my office handing me the hefty manuscript. There was no getting out of it; only one hope remained—that I could read a few pages and that they would be bad enough for me, in good conscience, to read no farther. Usually I can do just that. Indeed the first paragraph often suffices. My only fear was that this one might not be bad enough, or might be just good enough, so that I would have to keep reading.
In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.[12]
The book was published by LSU Press in 1980. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. In 2005, Blackstone Audio released an unabridged audiobook of the novel, read by Barrett Whitener.
While Tulane University in New Orleans retains a collection of Toole's papers, and some early drafts have been found, the location of the original manuscript is unknown.[13]
Adaptations[edit]
In March 1984, LSU staged a musical comedy production of the book, with actor Scott Harlan playing Ignatius.[14]
Kerry Shale read the book for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in 1982, and later adapted the book into a one-man show which he performed at the Adelaide Festival in 1990,[15] at the Gate Theatre in London, and for BBC Radio.[16]
There have been repeated attempts to turn the book into a film. In 1982, Harold Ramis was to write and direct an adaptation, starring John Belushi as Ignatius and Richard Pryor as Burma Jones, but Belushi's death prevented this. Later, John Candy and Chris Farley were touted for the lead, but both of them, like Belushi, also died at an early age, leading many to ascribe a curse to the role of Ignatius.[17]
Director John Waters was interested in directing an adaptation that would have starred Divine, who also died at an early age, as Ignatius.[18]
British performer and writer Stephen Fry was at one point commissioned to adapt Toole's book for the screen.[19] He was sent to New Orleans by Paramount Studios in 1997 to get background for a screenplay adaptation.[20]
John Goodman, a longtime resident of New Orleans, was slated to play Ignatius at one point.[21]
A version adapted by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer, and slated to be directed by David Gordon Green, was scheduled for release in 2005. The film was to star Will Ferrell as Ignatius and Lily Tomlin as Irene. A staged reading of the script took place at the 8th Nantucket Film Festival, with Ferrell as Ignatius, Anne Meara as Irene, Paul Rudd as Officer Mancuso, Kristen Johnston as Lana Lee, Mos Def as Burma Jones, Rosie Perez as Darlene, Olympia Dukakis as Santa Battaglia and Miss Trixie, Natasha Lyonne as Myrna, Alan Cumming as Dorian Greene, John Shea as Gonzales, Jesse Eisenberg as George, John Conlon as Claude Robichaux, Jace Alexander as Bartender Ben, Celia Weston as Miss Annie, Miss Inez & Mrs. Levy, and Dan Hedaya as Mr. Levy.[22]
Various reasons are cited as to why the Soderbergh version has yet to be filmed. They include disorganization and lack of interest at Paramount Pictures, the head of the Louisiana State Film Commission being murdered, and the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.[17] When asked why the film was never made, Will Ferrell has said it is a 'mystery'.[23]
Turn off aero peek windows 10. In 2012, there was a version in negotiation with director James Bobin and potentially starring Zach Galifianakis.[24]
In a 2013 interview, Steven Soderbergh remarked 'I think it's cursed. I'm not prone to superstition, but that project has got bad mojo on it.'[25]
In November 2015, Huntington Theatre Company debuted the world premiere of a stage version of A Confederacy of Dunces written by Jeffrey Hatcher in their Avenue of the Arts/BU Theatre location in Boston, starring Nick Offerman as Ignatius J. Reilly. It set a record as the company's highest-grossing production.[26]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Amazon.com: A Confederacy of Dunces'. Amazon.com. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ abcdPodgorski, Daniel (August 23, 2016). 'Peopling Picaresque: On the Well-drawn Characters of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces'. The Gemsbok. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^Giemza, Bryan (Spring 2004). 'Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole'. Southern Cultures (review). Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey. 10 (1): 97–9. ISSN1534-1488.
- ^Miller, Karl (1999-03-05). 'An American tragedy. A lifetime of rejection broke John Kennedy Toole. But his aged mother believed in his talent, found a publisher for his novel and rescued his memory from oblivion'. www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
- ^Lowe, John (December 2008). Louisiana culture from the colonial era to Katrina. LSU Press. p. 164. ISBN978-0-8071-3337-8. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ^Patteson, Richard F (1982), 'Ignatius Goes to the Movies: The Films in Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature, 6 (2), item 14.
- ^Toole 1980, p. 136.
- ^Nagle, Stephen J; Sanders, Sara L (2003). English in the southern United States. Cambridge University Press. p. 181.
- ^Heilman, Heather; DeMocker, Michael (November 26, 2001). 'Ignatius Comes of Age'. Tulanian. Tulane University. Archived from the original on 2010-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- ^Miller, Elizabeth 'Liz'. 'An Interview with Poppy Z. Brite'. Bookslut. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
- ^1937-1969., Toole, John Kennedy,. A confederacy of dunces. Percy, Walker, 1916-1990,. Baton Rouge. p. 288. ISBN0807106577. OCLC5336849.
- ^Percy, Walker (1980), Preface in Toole 1980.
- ^MacLauchlin, Cory (March 26, 2012). 'The Lost Manuscript to 'A Confederacy of Dunces''(online magazine). The Millions. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
- ^'Confederacy Of Dunces Play May Wind Up On Broadway'(PDF). Digitallibrary.tulane.edu. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^Toole, . Confederacy of dunces, John Kennedy; Shale, actor.), Kerr (15 January 1990). 'A confederacy of dunces, by John Kennedy Toole : [theatre program], 1990 Adelaide Festival' – via Trove.
- ^'Actor'. Kerryshale.com. 16 April 2015.
- ^ abHyman, Peter (December 14, 2006). 'The development hell of 'A Confederacy of Dunces''. Slate. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
- ^Allman, Kevin. 'John Waters'. Gambit New Orleans News and Entertainment. Best of New Orleans. Archived from the original(interview) on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
- ^Fry, Stephen (2005-09-06). 'The great stink of 2005'. Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 2009-09-15. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
- ^Fry, Stephen (2008), Stephen Fry in America, Harper Collins, p. 138.
- ^Fretts, Bruce (19 May 2000). 'A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates its 20th anniversary'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^Head, Steve (2003-06-25). 'Filmforce'. IGN. Archived from the original on September 11, 2005. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
- ^Stephenson, Hunter (February 29, 2008). 'Will Ferrell Talks Land of the Lost, Old School 2, Elf 2 and A Confederacy of Dunces'. Slashfilm. Archived from the original on 2009-01-24. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
- ^Brodesser-Akner, Claude (2012-05-22), 'Exclusive: 'Dunces' Finds Its Ignatius in Galifianakis', Vulture.
- ^'Soderbergh in Vulture'. Vulture.com. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ^Shanahan, Mark (23 December 2015). ''Confederacy of Dunces' sets Huntington Theatre record'. The Boston Globe.
Citation[edit]
- Toole, John Kennedy (1980), A Confederacy of Dunces, LSU Press, ISBN0-8021-3020-8
Further reading[edit]
- Clark, William Bedford (1987), 'All Toole's children: A reading of 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', Essays in Literature, 14: 269–80.
- Dunne, Sara L (2005), 'Moviegoing in the Modern Novel: Holden, Binx, Ignatius', Studies in Popular Culture, 28 (1): 37–47.
- Kline, Michael (1999), 'Narrating the Grotesque: The Rhetoric of Humor in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces', Southern Quarterly, 37 (3–4): 283–91.
- Leighton, H Vernon (2007–2012), John Kennedy Toole Research, Winona, three scholarly articles (including one free full text) and other materials.
- Lowe, John (2008), 'The Carnival Voices of 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, pp. 159–90.
- MacLauchlin, Cory (2012), Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of 'A Confederacy of Dunces'(biography), Da Capo Press, ISBN978-0-306-82040-3 (literary analysis, chapter 15).
- Marsh, Leslie (2013), Critical Notice of Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces'(review), Journal of Mind and Behavior, ISSN0271-0137
- McNeil, David (1984), 'A Confederacy of Dunces as Reverse Satire: The American Subgenre', Mississippi Quarterly, 38: 33–47.
- Palumbo, Carmine D (1995), 'John Kennedy Toole and His Confederacy of Dunces', Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, 10: 59–77.
- Patteson, Richard F; Sauret, Thomas (1983), 'The Consolation of Illusion: John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', Texas Review, 4 (1–2): 77–87.
- Pugh, Tison (2006), ''It's Prolly Fulla Dirty Stories': Masturbatory Allegory and Queer Medievalism in John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', Studies in Medievalism, 15: 77–100.
- Rudnicki, Robert (2009), 'Euphues and the Anatomy of Influence: John Lyly, Harold Bloom, James Olney, and the Construction of John Kennedy Toole's Ignatius', Mississippi Quarterly, 62 (1–2): 281–302.
- Simmons, Jonathan (1989), 'Ignatius Reilly and the Concept of the Grotesque in John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', Mississippi Quarterly, 43 (1): 33–43.
- Simon, Richard K (1994), 'John Kennedy Toole and Walker Percy: Fiction and Repetition in 'A Confederacy of Dunces'', Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 36 (1): 99–116, JSTOR40755032.
- Zaenker, Karl A (1987), 'Hrotsvit and the Moderns: Her Impact on John Kennedy Toole and Peter Hacks', in Wilson, Katharina M (ed.), Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Rara Avis in Saxonia?, Ann Arbor, MI: Marc, pp. 275–85.
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Este libro fue todo un descubrimiento. Me lo regaló mi hijo, quien lo había gozado, letra a letra. Es único; distinto a todo lo que había leído, (y me leo entre 5 y 6 libros mensuales, desde hace 30 años!), de una ironía que, llena de cinismo, está escrita de tal forma que simplemente me hizo reir, literalmente, a gritos! Muchas veces, cuando lo leía en lugares públicos, tuve que aguantar las caras de duda sobre mi cordura por estos estallidos de carcajadas. La historia del autor, (pobre! Hasta su nombre era una ironía), hace que la risa se congele y lamentemos que una obra genial, no llegue a tiempo al editor adecuado.
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El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly -una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y santo Tomás de Aquino perverso, reunidos en una persona-, que a los treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, t..more
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Newly WardellThis book is so vivid that you can practically smell New Orleans. Toole's Ignatius is intellectualism gone wrong. When I pontificate about the virtue…moreThis book is so vivid that you can practically smell New Orleans. Toole's Ignatius is intellectualism gone wrong. When I pontificate about the virtue of science fiction or feverishly debate the merits of one quarterback over another during fantasy football season, I see Ignatius in me. It is usually at this time that I step off the soapbox.
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Dolores Andral'Ooo-wee'and 'whoa' got tiring really fast. But every character was painted with such broad-strokes buffoonery it's hard to just focus on that…more'Ooo-wee'and 'whoa' got tiring really fast. But every character was painted with such broad-strokes buffoonery it's hard to just focus on that character. I mean, homosexuals must me writhing in their skin with the type of singular one-dimensional characterization Mr. Toole gave them.
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One fine morning Fortuna spun my wheel of luck and put me on a flight to NYC. The person who was sitting next to me, refusing to indulge in modern day perversities like movies, pulled out his book and sat down reading. He must have been enjoying it immensely, because he kept laughing out loud every now and then. Soon he realized that some people had started turning around to give him weird looks. Poor guy didn't have an option but to put the book down. But Fortuna being the degenerate wanton tha..more
Recommends it for: People who think unreasonable whining is funny.
I know I'm out on my own on this one, but I detest this book. I really think it glorifies whining to an extent never before seen in the human condition. Everyone I know loves this book, and I know I am in a minority here. But Christ.. That this book is so popular with people in my age bracket and not so popular with people older or younger really makes me wonder if it is part of the problem or a reflection of the boring, whiny apathy of my generation. But if this book has any redeemable aspects..more
Mar 18, 2011Jeffrey Keeten rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Read for the group On the Southern Literary Trail
Bounce
BOUnce
BOUNCE
Oh man ughh ooohhhhh.
BOUNCE!
BOUNCE!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Oh thank goodness my pyloric valve finally opened. I didn't know I even had a pyloric valve until I met Ignatius J. Reilly. I had no idea that little valve could be so pesky. I can only hope it stays open long enough for me to write this review.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Ignatius is..more
Bounce
BOUnce
BOUNCE
Oh man ughh ooohhhhh.
BOUNCE!
BOUNCE!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Oh thank goodness my pyloric valve finally opened. I didn't know I even had a pyloric valve until I met Ignatius J. Reilly. I had no idea that little valve could be so pesky. I can only hope it stays open long enough for me to write this review.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Ignatius is..more
Apr 05, 2007sarah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
There are a lot of ways to judge people, but I find that opinion of this book is one of the most accurate and efficient. With very few exceptions, I've found that how much I like someone is strongly correlated with how much they enjoy the book. Is it their favorite book ever, omg? Well, they're probably either a best friend, a comrade whom I hold in worship-approximating esteem, or my cool cousin or uncle or something like that. Do they not 'get' it or find it boring? You aren't my type, sorry...more
Dec 29, 2007Mary Catherine rated it did not like it · review of another edition
I hated this book. I almost gave up after the first 20 pages, but I decided to stick with it and give it a chance. Wrong. My first instinct was correct!
The only thing that might have saved this for me was if the main character Ignatius faced a long, slow, painful death. There was absolutely nothing about him that I found redeeming or appealing. Has there ever been a more annoying, obnoxious character in literature? If so, I don't want to know.
I had heard that this was supposed to be an hilariou..more
The only thing that might have saved this for me was if the main character Ignatius faced a long, slow, painful death. There was absolutely nothing about him that I found redeeming or appealing. Has there ever been a more annoying, obnoxious character in literature? If so, I don't want to know.
I had heard that this was supposed to be an hilariou..more
May 12, 2008Michelle rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I thought the book was ok. One of my old boyfriends recommended it to me, and while I was reading it I told him what an asshole I thought Ignatius J. Reilly was, and that I was sick of hearing about his valve. He got pissed off at me and told me that I didn't get it. He said Ignatius was a misunderstood genius stuck in a shitty town with no one who understood him. To be honest, my eyes kind of glazed over and I don't remember the rest of his rant, but I finished the book anyway. I think the most..more
Sep 30, 2007Paul Bryant rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Authors who commit suicide find their Lovelybones-eye view from the afterlife brings them no comfort:
David Foster Wallace : Oh my God - look at that dreadful biography of me.. and it's selling too.. it's like they're murdering me all over again .. oh if I could only commit suicide all over again - but up here, you can't!
John Kennedy Toole : Oh shut up you preening self-regarding self-annotating depressing pedant, what about ME?? My God, if I'd only persevered for another year or so, I'd have..more
Jul 16, 2016Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing · review of another editionDavid Foster Wallace : Oh my God - look at that dreadful biography of me.. and it's selling too.. it's like they're murdering me all over again .. oh if I could only commit suicide all over again - but up here, you can't!
John Kennedy Toole : Oh shut up you preening self-regarding self-annotating depressing pedant, what about ME?? My God, if I'd only persevered for another year or so, I'd have..more
Shelves: novels, favorites, fiction, american-20th-c, classics, pulitzer-fiction, posthumous
This was my second read of this unbelievable masterpiece from John Kennedy Toole who committed suicide 21 years before this book was rediscovered and published by his mother (he was thus the only person to receive a posthumous Pulitzer in 1981). Ignatius P Reilly is so incredibly unforgettable. I laughed from cover to cover. The parrot on his shoulder reminded me of the Mexico episode in Bellow's Augie March (which I also loved and reviewed here). There is never a dull moment here and the implic..more
Sep 29, 2014Matt rated it it was ok · review of another edition
This is the book that almost broke my book club.
John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is as famous for its back-story as it is for its content. It was published posthumously in 1980, over a decade after Toole ended his own life by carbon monoxide poisoning. Despite having been earlier rejected by publishers, the book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a rambling, aimless, comedic novel centered on Ignatius J. Reilly, a buffoonish overweight man-child with poor..more
John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is as famous for its back-story as it is for its content. It was published posthumously in 1980, over a decade after Toole ended his own life by carbon monoxide poisoning. Despite having been earlier rejected by publishers, the book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a rambling, aimless, comedic novel centered on Ignatius J. Reilly, a buffoonish overweight man-child with poor..more
Aug 01, 2011Lyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Confederacy of Dunces is a masterpiece of satire and irony, a worthy recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for best novel.
It is funny, sometimes uproariously so, and I smiled and chuckled throughout. Toole’s depression and loss was not just of himself and his family, but also of us all, a genius who can create this comedic virtuosity might have written a folio of great work, and perhaps Confederacy was not even his greatest. Or perhaps, the spark that drove him to so bitingly observe our culture and..more
Sep 30, 2007Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another editionIt is funny, sometimes uproariously so, and I smiled and chuckled throughout. Toole’s depression and loss was not just of himself and his family, but also of us all, a genius who can create this comedic virtuosity might have written a folio of great work, and perhaps Confederacy was not even his greatest. Or perhaps, the spark that drove him to so bitingly observe our culture and..more
Shelves: 1001-must-read, oh-my-nola, owned, pulitzer, american-as-apple-pie, book-club-rg, recommend-to-friends, humor
Dear Reader,
Fortuna evidently was smiling upon my being when I endeavored to undertake the consumption of this philosophical masterpiece. How amusing to stumble upon a comic homage to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, an homage that not only mirrors its source of inspiration in both content and structure, but moreover employs said source as a plot device of the most humorous kind. Certainly it was no mere accident; indeed it must have been a result of afflatus imparted by the goddess herself..more
Jul 12, 2012Madeleine rated it liked it · review of another editionFortuna evidently was smiling upon my being when I endeavored to undertake the consumption of this philosophical masterpiece. How amusing to stumble upon a comic homage to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, an homage that not only mirrors its source of inspiration in both content and structure, but moreover employs said source as a plot device of the most humorous kind. Certainly it was no mere accident; indeed it must have been a result of afflatus imparted by the goddess herself..more
Shelves: 2012, maybe-it-s-time-to-live, books-with-buttons, head-in-the-clouds-nose-in-a-book, our-libeary, tooting-my-own-muted-horn, blogophilia
ETA: I recently came across a physical copy of this at my favorite used-book store. The eagerness with which I grabbed said copy--and the disappointment I felt in its previous owner for the lack of annotation I found in its pages--suggests that I liked this book far more than I hated its main character. Also, I am gleefully drunk at this particular moment so please forgive me for any logical or grammatical inconsistencies currently present in this preface. I might get around to fixing them once..more
Dec 15, 2012Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: literature, american, 20th-century, contemporary, humor, classic
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
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, 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..more
Feb 24, 2011Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it 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, 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..more
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really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: exert-yourself, reviews, toole, read-2011
A Whiff and a Sniff and I'm Off
Well, I finished and I'm glad I persisted.
You know how dogs sometimes sniff each other for ages before deciding to hump?
I was like that for a few years before I read the book, but more importantly I sniffed around ineffectually for the first 100 pages and could easily have blamed the book for my lack of engagement.
I read the last 300 pages in a couple of sittings.
I had to get on a roll.
But once you commit, the book pulls you, rather than you having to push the book..more
Well, I finished and I'm glad I persisted.
You know how dogs sometimes sniff each other for ages before deciding to hump?
I was like that for a few years before I read the book, but more importantly I sniffed around ineffectually for the first 100 pages and could easily have blamed the book for my lack of engagement.
I read the last 300 pages in a couple of sittings.
I had to get on a roll.
But once you commit, the book pulls you, rather than you having to push the book..more
Jul 30, 2007Steve rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Am I being unduly harsh giving this a mere “It’s OK”? Maybe. To hear some people describe it (even people I usually correlate well with), this book is a laugh-scream riot. Hopes grow even higher when you hear the story about Toole’s mother who, after his suicide, finally gets the thing published, then sits back to watch the prizes pour in. What I viewed as a miss may have been because the bar was so high. It could be, too, that I’m just not predisposed to dysfunctional characters, all bloated wi..more
Mar 24, 2007Conrad rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Ugh. Most overrated book ever. What a smug pile of overripe garbage.
Feb 13, 2017LisaLa Conjura De Los Necios Audiolibro
rated it it was ok · review of another edition Shelves: pulitzer, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die
La Conjura De Los Necios Santaflow Letra
Have I lost my sense of humour?
Everyone seems to love this piece of writing, and I was highly motivated when I saw the Jonathan Swift quote in the beginning, giving the novel its name:
'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.'
However, all I could discover in the story were the dunces, engaged in never-ending dull dialogues, showing off their vulgarity and stupidity without an ounce of fun. Slapstick, not irony or..more
Jan 01, 2010Lawyer rated it it was amazing · review of another editionEveryone seems to love this piece of writing, and I was highly motivated when I saw the Jonathan Swift quote in the beginning, giving the novel its name:
'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.'
However, all I could discover in the story were the dunces, engaged in never-ending dull dialogues, showing off their vulgarity and stupidity without an ounce of fun. Slapstick, not irony or..more
Recommended to Lawyer by: New York Times Book Review
Shelves: 20th-century, 2012, fortuna, popular-culture, humor, john-kennedy-toole, comedy, satire, mothers-and-sons, southern-literature
A Confederacy of Dunces: John Kennedy Toole's Novel of What it Means to Miss New Orleans
A Confederacy of Dunces was chosen as the first group read of On the Southern Literary Trail in March, 2012. Now, a few months after 'The Trail's' FIFTH Anniversary, the readers have chosen this novel as one of it's group reads for July, 2017. Come join us!
Nov 17, 2015Perry rated it it was amazing · review of another editionA Confederacy of Dunces was chosen as the first group read of On the Southern Literary Trail in March, 2012. Now, a few months after 'The Trail's' FIFTH Anniversary, the readers have chosen this novel as one of it's group reads for July, 2017. Come join us!
'Miniver cursed the commonplace..more
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the mediæval grace
Of iron clothing.
Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
Bu
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oh boy oh boy oh boy..
When I first picked this up, I deemed it a little too odd. I thought, hell, the cover illustration shows this is grotesque humour. I put it down not to pick back up for more than a year at which point I decided to read up to page 75.
What followed was not at all grotesque or surreal humor, but instead the funniest literary novel I've ever read. I LOVED IT...more
The Big Easy's Mensa Motley Fool, its Baissière Barbare
oh boy oh boy oh boy..
When I first picked this up, I deemed it a little too odd. I thought, hell, the cover illustration shows this is grotesque humour. I put it down not to pick back up for more than a year at which point I decided to read up to page 75.
What followed was not at all grotesque or surreal humor, but instead the funniest literary novel I've ever read. I LOVED IT...more
Jul 30, 2007Gregory rated it did not like it · review of another edition
This so-called 'farce' and 'classic' was more frustrating to me than entertaining. I dislike leaving a book unfinished and the only reason I continued to read it was the hope that my effort would be paid off in the end. Alas, no such reward awaited me. This further cemented my belief that the only reason classics are called so is because some committee agreed and the public thought the committee must be right. I'm afraid my lingering disillusion with this book prevents my ability to form any mor..more
Nov 26, 2007Joe S rated it did not like it · review of another edition
What a colossal waste of my life. Nothing happens. Literally. That's what's wrong with this book. It's a freshman-level fiction workshop gone horribly awry. And it won what?
Jan 15, 2014Glenn Russell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
A laugh-out-loud picaresque, a story chock-full of satire and unforgettable humorous detail as we follow the adventures of our larger-than-life rascal-hero, Ignatius J. Reilly, floundering and farting his way through New Orleans in the 1960s.
If you think of a novel-length R. Crumb cartoon you wou..more
Jan 25, 2013Szplug rated it did not like it · review of another edition
The story of Toole, and the novel by which he apparently vented the demons that lurked within his existentially unhale self, is a sad one, and that foreknowledge endows A Confederacy of Dunces with a patina of melancholy before the first page is turned; a lacquer directly at odds with the immensely high expectations and consequent eagerness I brought into its reading due to the superlatives I had discovered ere I opted to take the plunge: most prevalent, its status as being rife with hilarity an..more
Mar 17, 2008Nathan Marshall rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A weird and wonderful book. Truly, I've never read anything like it. This novel has some of the crispest, most well-painted characters I've ever read, and although I wasn't 'laughing out loud' as much as the reviewers on the back cover promised, it is definitely funny as hell, and a completely cringe-worthy story. The character of Ignatius Reilly will haunt me. We all know people like this -- the over-educated, miserable, socially dysfunctional outcast who is so cut off from the world that he ma..more
Jan 03, 2008RandomAnthony rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
How much do I love A Confederacy of Dunces? This much.
I've read the novel at least ten times and this edition (which a friend rightfully noted displays an uglyass cover) became my glove compartment book through a few years of waiting-in-the-carpool-lane-after-school stretches. I re-read the novel late this past May and it still holds up. Genius structure, brilliant dialogue, dark as hell, and funny over and over. Mr. Toole,I don't know what demons haunted you, but when you exhaled this novel yo..more
I've read the novel at least ten times and this edition (which a friend rightfully noted displays an uglyass cover) became my glove compartment book through a few years of waiting-in-the-carpool-lane-after-school stretches. I re-read the novel late this past May and it still holds up. Genius structure, brilliant dialogue, dark as hell, and funny over and over. Mr. Toole,I don't know what demons haunted you, but when you exhaled this novel yo..more
Oct 10, 2017Mutasim Billah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”John Kennedy Toole had committed suicide over a decade before this book had eventually been published, and thereafter won a posthumous Pulitzer. This book is one of the rare ones that made me laugh at every turn of a page. The dark comedy and the constant ridicule of American consumerism make it equally thought-provoking and hilarious. There were so many times I guffa
Mar 31, 2014Barry Pierce rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Ignatius J. Reilly. Oh my sweet motherfuck. I think I have a new favourite character in literature.
I don't know why I was so reluctant to pick this up. It was on my TBR for far too long, god I've been missing out on so much by not reading this novel. This is a brilliant book. Ugh god I loved it so much that I'm actually finding it hard to write anything coherent because all I can think of is superlatives and hyperbole. Eh, superlatives and hyperboles never hurt anyone. This is amazing and you s..more
I don't know why I was so reluctant to pick this up. It was on my TBR for far too long, god I've been missing out on so much by not reading this novel. This is a brilliant book. Ugh god I loved it so much that I'm actually finding it hard to write anything coherent because all I can think of is superlatives and hyperbole. Eh, superlatives and hyperboles never hurt anyone. This is amazing and you s..more
Jan 17, 2018R.K. Gold rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I think I have a new favorite book. Certainly a book I will read again and one I didn’t want to put down my first go around. The story of Ignatius and his crusade against the world, making the long term lives of those he touched better off once they survived his initial destruction, was one non-stop laugh for me.
What made this book work so well was the lack of perfection. Though Ignatius was a total prick he was in a world of people just as bad (just better at hiding it) and though they all loat..more
What made this book work so well was the lack of perfection. Though Ignatius was a total prick he was in a world of people just as bad (just better at hiding it) and though they all loat..more
Jun 20, 2008Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Easily the funniest book I’ve ever read. A masterful fugue of high and low comedy, the novel traces the exploits of Ignatius J. Reilly, thwarted author, philosopher, and medievalist, as he is tragically forced to divert energy from the writing of his magnum opus — a comparative history that will astonish a benighted world — in order to get a job. Interlaced through Ignatius’s epic employment journey (including stints as a hot dog vendor and filing clerk) is a cast of New Orleans eccentrics teete..more
May 07, 2007ally rated it did not like it · review of another edition
i think i'm one of the few people in this world who didn't like this book. i really tried to read it, my dad and sister just raved about it - but i found myself bored and annoyed. it's one thing to not like characters b/c the author wrote them so brilliantly you actually have an emotional response to them, whether it be positive or negative, but with this book, i was just bored and didn't care about the characters. It was actually painful to read past one point. I absolutely could not read past..more
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John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarde..more
Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarde..more
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