John Kennedy Toole

'My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly 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. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving 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... Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue' The New York Times

A Confederacy of Dunces

Angela Pérez

José Manuel Álvarez Flórez

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

La conjura de los necios

The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death. The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, a young man named David, on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in for the first time. What unspools is the tender and tragic coming-of-age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around David's unorthodox friendship with his great-aunt Mae - a former stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative townspeople - and the everyday toll of living in an environment of religious fanaticism. From the opening lines of The Neon Bible, David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole.

The Neon Bible

Püren Özgören

roman

Alıklar birliği

Una conspiração de estúpidos

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.

Itiḥādiyah-yi ablahān

John Kennedy Toole, auteur de la Conjuration des imbéciles, chef-d'œuvre qui lui a valu en 1981, à titre posthume, le prix Pulitzer, a écrit la Bible de néon à l'âge de seize ans. Une voix juste, désarmante, drôle et poignante s'impose dans ce roman d'une enfance déshéritée, qui recèle une émotion venue du fond du cœur. Rien de plus authentique que ce testament d'un écrivain qui avait du génie, et dont l'œuvre et à classer aux côtes de celles de Flannery O'Connor et de Carson McCullers.

La Bible de Néon

Uma conspiração de estúpidos

رواية

تحالف الأغبياء

اتحادیه ابلهان

Peter Marginter

Roman

Ignaz oder die Verschwörung der Idioten

Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning

The protagonist of this novel is one of the most memorable characters in American fiction: Ignatius Reilly, who at thirty still lives with his eccentric mother, busy writing a denunciation of modern times. Due to a need for money, he becomes "catapulted into the fever of contemporary existence", a fever to which Ignatius adds a few more degrees of temperature.

Conjura de Los Necios, La -V3*

Die Verschwörung der Idioten : Roman

Spolčení hlupců

Ignaz J. Reilly - ein 'Wirrkopf von Gottes Gnaden, ein fetter Don Quijote, ein perverser Thomas von Aquin' und in der Tat einer der originellsten Helden, den die amerikanische Literatur je hervorgebracht hat. Eines Tages nun wird dieser sich bisher stoisch jeder produktiven Betätigung verweigernde Fleischberg von seiner Mutter gezwungen, sich nach einem Job umsehen. Reillys berufliche Odyssee führt ihn von einer heruntergekommenen Hosenfabrik - in der er das Problem der Ablage mit Hilfe des Papierkorbs löst und eine Revolte unter den schwarzen Arbeitern anzettelt - ins French Quarter von New Orleans, wo ihm ein fahrbare Wurststand anvertraut wird. Aber auch dieser Beruf bietet keine Zukunft, denn als Hot-Dog-Verkäufer ist er sein bester Kunde. Ignaz trägt sich indes bald mit neuen Plänen - Er wird eine Partei gründen, eine Partei der Sodomiten.

El protagonista d’aquesta novel•la és un dels personatges més memorables de la literatura nord-americana: l’Ignatius J. Reilly –un còctel d’Oliver Hardy delirant, Quixot adipós i Tomàs d’Aquino pervers–, que amb trenta anys encara viu amb la seva estrafolària mare mentre escriu una denúncia demolidora contra el segle XX, tan mancat de «teologia i geometria» com de «gust i decència»; un al•legat trastornat contra una societat trastornada. A causa d’una inesperada necessitat de diners, es veu catapultat «al mig del desori de l’existència contemporània» i embarcat en feines d’allò més absurdes. Els personatges secundaris són tan exòtics (i neuròtics) com els d’una pel•lícula dels germans Marx: la Darlene, la ballarina d’estriptis que prepara un número amb una cacatua; en Jones, el primmirat porter negre del Night of Joy, regentat per la rapaç Lana Lee, que complementa els seus ingressos com a model de fotos porno; l’agent Mancuso, el policia més incompetent de Nova Orleans; la Myrna Minkoff, la catastròfica estudiant contestatària; la senyoreta Trixie, l’octogenària enfurida perquè no la jubilen... Una confabulació d’imbècils, que presentem traduïda de nou al català per Xavier Pàmies, és l’obra mestra pòstuma de John Kennedy Toole, reconegut unànimement com un autor imprescindible en la tradició de Cervantes, Fielding, Swift, Rabelais i Dickens.

John Kennedy Toole

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