The confederacy of dunces

av John Kennedy Toole (forfatter).

2011 Heftet

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Meet the fat, flatulent and eloquent Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's light and pithy comic tale A Confederacy of Dunces, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.'Ignatius J. Reilly: 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. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . .'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' New York Times'A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from' Anthony BurgessJohn 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 went on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, has also been published.

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Utgivelsesår 2011

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ISBN13 9780241951590

EAN 9780241951590

Språk Engelsk

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Elisabeth om The confederacy of dunces av John Kennedy Toole:

10:42, 8. mars 2014*

Merkelig. Jeg liker boken, men sliter med motivasjon til å plukke den opp og komme meg videre. Kjennes noe datert, men språket er bra og karakterene alt annet enn endimensjonale.

Det tok sin tid, men jeg kom meg i mål. Alt i alt så er den absolutt leseverdig, med enkelte særdeles velskrevne partier, men det går virkelig trått innimellom. Ikke en bok jeg kommer til å anbefale, og jeg synes kanskje det er litt merkelig at den er på så mange lister over "moderne klassikere".

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