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 book'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.
约翰·肯尼迪·图尔(John Kennedy Toole)美国著名作家。1937年生于新奥尔良。哥伦比亚大学毕业后,曾执教于西南路易斯安那亨特学院和新奥尔良多米尼加学院。十几岁时,图尔就开始长篇小说《笨蛋联盟》的创作。1980年,在母亲的努力下,《笨蛋联盟》得以出版,很快引起读者的轰动,并于次年斩获美国文学界最权威的奖项——普利策小说奖。
一部伟大的小说,注定不会被埋没,哪怕它的作者默默无闻甚至已经不在这个世界上,哪怕它的内容荒诞不经甚至疯言疯语,但在这荒诞疯癫的背后,却是洞悉世事与人性的深刻,给阅读的人以独特的启迪。对于读者,不同时代的人,不同生活经历的人,不同人生理想目标的人,也会对这样...
评分拿起这本书,看到书名,情不自禁被封面吸引,封面中的那个小丑似笑非笑,笑中有点苦涩的表情会轻轻地触碰着内心中的某种柔软的情愫。这种一霎的情愫很快会被书中这个叫做伊格内休斯的主人公的出现冲淡,他的出场伴随了太多的问题,暂不提他的衣着和发型,甚至那个奇怪至极...
评分关键词:逃亡、幽门、封面 作者戏剧的功底在书中展现得淋漓尽致,作者把他自己写进了书里,主角把自己写进了小说里。虽然读来人物夸张怪诞,但如果把这本书搬上舞台,人物极富戏剧张力。尤其是书的最后一章极具镜头感,如果拍电影将是故事倒叙的绝佳开头:男主角狂奔着企图逃...
评分关键词:逃亡、幽门、封面 作者戏剧的功底在书中展现得淋漓尽致,作者把他自己写进了书里,主角把自己写进了小说里。虽然读来人物夸张怪诞,但如果把这本书搬上舞台,人物极富戏剧张力。尤其是书的最后一章极具镜头感,如果拍电影将是故事倒叙的绝佳开头:男主角狂奔着企图逃...
fatass version Shelden Cooper
评分amusingly profane!
评分When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 施老师说他觉得最好的小说应该是笑中带泪的,感觉读这本小说就是放肆笑完之后是深深的沉默,悲剧往往和喜剧只有一线之隔,人生既不是悲剧也不是喜剧,而是一场悲喜剧,我想这就是波拉尼奥把它列为自己最爱的几本书之一的原因吧。第一章里那些酒馆的对话很美剧,让我想到了丧到家的《百年酒馆》。
评分amusingly profane!
评分amusingly profane!
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