· Summary. This article examines the life and work of John Kennedy Toole, focusing on his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole finished the novel in and, after failing to rework his manuscript to his editor's satisfaction, he shelved the project. Following this, he displayed symptoms typical of paranoid schizophrenia and he took his own life at the age of Author: Abhijit Pal. A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter /5(K). Outstanding 6th printing (May, ) of the John Kennedy Toole classicA Confederacy of Dunces. There is a little whiting around the title at the spine, but otherwise in excellent condition. The jacket has wear, especially at the top front and bltadwin.ru date: .
Abstract: This study uses the evidence held in John Kennedy Toole's papers located at Tulane University to investigate many literary works and authors who may have been possible influences on his novel A Confederacy of Dunces (Confederacy). Part one is a catalog of evidence about authors, texts, and characters to which Confederacy has been. Overview. John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces was written in the s but only published years after the author's death. It depicts the adventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, an academic but lazy man who, at age 30, lives with his mother in New Orleans in the early bltadwin.ru to find a job, he encounters a string of colorful characters endemic to the city of the time. On March 26 , on a quiet country road outside Biloxi, Mississippi, John Kennedy Toole took his own life. Aged just 31, the literary professor and author left behind two unpublished novels.
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 Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime.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 Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Summary. This article examines the life and work of John Kennedy Toole, focusing on his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole finished the novel in and, after failing to rework his manuscript to his editor's satisfaction, he shelved the project. Following this, he displayed symptoms typical of paranoid schizophrenia and he took his own life at the age of A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in , 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success.
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