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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( T ) : Toole, John Kennedy
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The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with ...
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Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author’s mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole’s comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition.Toole’s lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence—Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses.
Included here is the introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu composed for the bookÂ’s twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.
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Reprint Edition. WINGS BOOKS, NY 1996. THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL FEATURING IGNATIUS REILLY AND HIS MARVELOUS, MADCAP ADVENTURES IN NEW ORLEANS. Foreword by Walker Percy.
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'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him' - Jonathan Swift. A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk amongst the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Cief tablets as he goes - until his maroon-haired mother decrees that he must work.
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David, el protagonista de este libro, es un adolescente que vive en una poblacion miserable del profundo sur. Una biblia de neon ilumina el cielo por las noches, y durante el dia, el fanatismo religioso y la malevolencia hacen estragos en la vida de los ciudadanos. El padre de David pierde su trabajo, no puede seguir pagando su contribucion a la iglesia, y esto marca el inicio de una decadencia que los convertira en parias dentro de la pequena comunidad. No hay muchas alegrias en la vida de David, excepto las que llegan de la mano de tia Mae, una hermana de su madre que tras una fantasmal carrera como cantante, y ya con sesenta anos, escandaliza con su pelo tenido de rubio, sus vestidos de colores chillones y sus decrepitos novios. Tras una decepcion amorosa y un sangriento y escalofriante episodio, el joven David se apresta a una nueva vida en otros horizontes.
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![A Confederacy of Dunces [With Headphones]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FMeszyd9L._SL160_.jpg)
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Translation of: A confederacy of dunces by J.M. Álvarez y Ángela Pérez. El destino había dictado sentencia. Ignatius J. Reilly, un gigantesco glotón verborreico, quisquilloso y arrogante, quien a sus treinta y pocos años aún vivía a expensas de su madre, debía enfrentarse, finalmente, a la maldición del trabajo. Para Ignatius, un espíritu distinto y delicado, fiel a sus propias convicciones, comenzaba una terrible y humillante odisea. Pero para sus conciudadanos fue como si un castigo implacable en forma de gordo chiflado cayera sobre sus sufridas existencias, ya fuera trabajando de administrativo en una fábrica de pantalones, o como modesto vendedor de perritos calientes.