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。
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“当一个真正的天才出现在这个世界上,蠢蛋们都会联合起来攻击他,由此你可以辨认出他。 在读这本书的时候,我一次次站在了人群中,一次次去攻击伊格内休斯,我就是那蠢蛋中的一个吧。放下书本,我常常在想,我们平时笑话的那些人,鄙视的那些人,是不是做了我们只敢想,不敢做...
评分挺搞笑的。而且我觉得生活中应该有很多主人公那样的人。 他们有自己的想法、观点,他们生活在自己的小世界中,他们能够搞砸一切事情,又认为全世界的人都对自己不起,都在算计自己,他们自以为是,自高自大,“正义在我手,世界横着走!”在书中遇到这样的人,你会觉得他们又可...
评分相信大多数人都是被这个有意思的书名吸引的,而这个名字也是全书的精华所在——笨蛋们的联盟,一群笨蛋聚在一起会产生什么效果呢?封面上滑稽可笑的小丑也给这本书铺上了一层幽默荒诞的底色。 书中出现的所有人物几乎都可以用“笨蛋”一词来形容,没有一个是“正常...
评分同事汀爷下个月就要去澳洲留学了,他本是个土生土长的北京胡同男孩子,隔三差五就得吃顿卤煮、爆肚或者小肠陈的主儿,没事喜欢玩玩老百姓玩的古玩瓷片儿之类,再要么就是自己去仅存的胡同或者四合院里逛上一逛,感慨一下近些年政府的“混”,把这么多好宅子这么好的胡同都拆了...
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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fatass version Shelden Cooper
评分fatass version Shelden Cooper
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