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A Cornucopia of Dunderheads: A Parody of the Novel A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, with a Foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki

A Cornucopia of Dunderheads: A Parody of the Novel A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, with a Foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki

John Kennedy Toole

Baidarka Boy
2015
nidottu
WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO IGNATIUS J. REILLY?In this parody of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole Jr. plunges Ignatius J. Reilly into a New York City winter wonderland, where our Falstaffian hero inadvertently becomes vice president of the Charlie Chan Chinese Fortune Cookie Company, and where he finds a recently unearthed slip of paper that contains an occult secret for overthrowing the governments of the world (in a most unusual way, of course).Ignatius's parodic adventures would not be complete without his nemesis-friend, Myrna Minkoff. Add to the mix her parents, Mr. Minkoff and Mrs. Minkoff, two inept government agents (is there a redundancy here?), Ignatius's mother, his mother's fianc , a virago or two, John Kennedy Toole, Ed Sullivan, and Myrna's concupiscent grandmother, Grandmother Horowitz, and you have the ingredients for a parody unlike any other ever written.With a foreword by Franz-Heinrich Katecki.
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Una banda di idioti di John Kennedy Toole (Analisi del libro)

Una banda di idioti di John Kennedy Toole (Analisi del libro)

MustRead (IT)
2023
pokkari
Cosa dobbiamo imparare da Una banda di idioti, un classico dell'umorismo americano? Trovate tutto quello che c' da sapere su quest'opera in un'analisi completa e dettagliata. In particolare, in questo file troverete - Un riassunto completo - Una presentazione dei personaggi principali come Ignatius J. Reilly o Myrna Minkoff - Un'analisi delle specificit dell'opera: l'umorismo nero, il ritratto dell'alienazione, la povert e le condizioni di lavoro negli Stati Uniti Un'analisi di riferimento per comprendere rapidamente il significato dell'opera.
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A Confederacy of Dunces van John Kennedy Toole (Boekanalyse)

A Confederacy of Dunces van John Kennedy Toole (Boekanalyse)

MustRead (NL)
2023
pokkari
Wat moeten we leren van A Confederacy of Dunces, de klassieker van de Amerikaanse humor? Vind alles wat u moet weten over dit werk in een volledige en gedetailleerde analyse. U vindt met name in dit dossier: - Een volledige samenvatting - Een voorstelling van de hoofdpersonen zoals Ignatius J. Reilly of Myrna Minkoff - Een analyse van de specifieke kenmerken van het werk: zwarte humor, het portret van vervreemding, armoede en arbeidsomstandigheden in de Verenigde Staten Een referentieanalyse om snel de betekenis van het werk te begrijpen.
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I, John Kennedy Toole

I, John Kennedy Toole

Jodee Blanco; Kent Carroll

Pegasus Books
2020
sidottu
I, John Kennedy Toole is the novelized true story of the funny, tragic, riveting narrative behind the making of an American masterpiece. The book traces Toole’s life in New Orleans through his adolescence, his stay at Columbia University in New York, his attempts to escape the burden of his demanding mother and his weak father, his retreat into a world of his own creation, and finally the invention of astonishing characters that came to living reality for both readers (and the author himself) in his prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces. The other fascinating (and mostly unknown) part of the story is how after a decade of rebuke and dismissal the novel came to a brilliant author, Walker Percy, and a young publisher, Kent Carroll, who separately rescued the book, then published it with verve and devotion. The novel that almost never came to be went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and continues to sell at a satisfying rate as it winds its way to the 2 million mark. That audience is the happy ending for this brilliant, unrepentant writer, whose only reward before his untimely death was his unending belief in his work and his characters.
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I, John Kennedy Toole

I, John Kennedy Toole

Kent Carroll; Jodee Blanco

Pegasus Books
2022
pokkari
A rich new novel that explores the true story of A Confederacy Of Dunces and the remarkable life of its author, John Kennedy Toole.I, John Kennedy Toole is the novelized true story of the funny, tragic, riveting narrative behind the making of an American masterpiece. The novel traces Toole’s life in New Orleans through his adolescence, his stay at Columbia University in New York, his attempts to escape the burden of his demanding mother and his weak father, his retreat into a world of his own creation, and finally the invention of astonishing characters that came to living reality for both readers (and the author himself) in his prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces. The other fascinating (and mostly unknown) part of the story is how after a decade of rebuke and dismissal the novel came to a brilliant author, Walker Percy, and a young publisher, Kent Carroll, who separately rescued the book, then published it with verve and devotion. The novel that almost never came to be went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and continues to sell at a satisfying rate as it winds its way to the 2 million mark. That audience is the happy ending for this brilliant, unrepentant writer, whose only reward before his untimely death was his unending belief in his work and his characters.“This novel tells the real-life story behind A Confederacy of Dunces, the cult classic that won a Pulitzer after Toole, its author, committed suicide. Carroll has a direct link to the material: He is the publisher who brought Toole’s book to light.” — New York Times “A boisterous fictional take on the life and career of author John Kennedy Toole. This love letter to Toole fans offers plenty of insights into the tragic literary figure.” — Publishers Weekly “Likable depiction of an ill-fated American master.” — Kirkus Reviews “The dramatization of publishing-world machinations is as fascinating as Toole’s life.” — Booklist “Every fan of A Confederacy of Dunces has read the Walker Percy foreword. We all thought we knew the story of how John Kennedy Toole’s novel found its way into readers’ hands after the author’s suicide. Boy, did we not know the story. Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco’s brilliant non-fiction novel gives us the goods, and then some. Illuminating and devastating, triumphant and tragic, I, John Kennedy Toole tells the tale of a dream deferred, of genius ignored.” — David Benioff, New York Times bestselling author of City of Thieves and co-creator of HBO's Game of Thrones
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A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Penguin Classics
2016
sidottu
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyA 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...This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times
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Confederacy of Dunces

Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Penguin Books Ltd.
2011
pokkari
"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 . . .
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A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
1994
nidottu
An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.
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A Confederacy of Dunces (35th Anniversary Edition)

A Confederacy of Dunces (35th Anniversary Edition)

John Kennedy Toole

Louisiana State University Press
2014
sidottu
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed ""slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one."" Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including 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; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens.The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for Toole's comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago.
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The Neon Bible

The Neon Bible

John Kennedy Toole

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
2019
nidottu
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.
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Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning

Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning

John Kennedy Toole

Modernista
2025
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En av litteraturhistoriens roligaste böcker i efterlängtad nyutgåvaMöt Ignatius J. Reilly, en modern Don Quijote i en lat, självupptagen och misantropisk mans kropp. Trettio år gammal bor Ignatius fortfarande hemma hos sin mamma i 1960-talets New Orleans, där han i sitt omåttliga förakt för allt modernt drömmer sig tillbaka till den gamla goda medeltiden. När hans mamma en natt kraschar deras bil - efter att tillsammans med Ignatius ha flytt från polisen och gömt sig på en strippklubb - tvingas han ta klivet ut i den verkliga världen och skaffa sig ett jobb. Romanen publicerades 1980, elva år efter Kennedy Tooles död vid bara trettioett års ålder. Det då refuserade manuskriptet hade han lämnat kvar i en kartong på sitt rum, och det var bara tack vare hans mammas oupphörliga försök som boken till slut blev utgiven. Året därpå belönades romanen med Pulitzerpriset. I översättning av Einar Heckscher. JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE [1937-1969] var en amerikansk författare, mest känd för den postumt utgivna romanen Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning, som ofta kallats världens roligaste bok och 2019 utsågs av BBC till en av världens hundra mest inspirerande romaner.
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A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Blackstone Publishing
1997
Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction. The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pultizer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans. This book has become an American comic masterpiece.
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