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。
献给我的朋友竹人。 ---------------------------- 我还从来没读过一本书,主人公能令人讨厌得超凡脱俗。《笨伯联盟》(A Confederacy of Dunces)中这位新奥尔良的伊格内修斯·赖利(Ignatius Reilly)可真是疯子中的极品,傻瓜中的天仙,与现实脱节到人神共愤的地步。他一...
评分读的不多,但这是最奇怪的一本。 被乔纳森的话引导,起初觉得他是一个天才。为了看透社会的庸俗,选择把自己边缘化。正所谓“不识庐山真面目”,一切都是合情合理。直到在Ignatius J. Reilly和Myrna Minkoff的信和Ignatius对母亲的态度中渐渐觉得这是一个可厌之人。他随意宣泄...
评分献给我的朋友竹人。 ---------------------------- 我还从来没读过一本书,主人公能令人讨厌得超凡脱俗。《笨伯联盟》(A Confederacy of Dunces)中这位新奥尔良的伊格内修斯·赖利(Ignatius Reilly)可真是疯子中的极品,傻瓜中的天仙,与现实脱节到人神共愤的地步。他一...
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评分读这本书有感如下几点: 天才,很多都是悲剧的吧,因为他们会比一般人看的更远,看的更透彻,可是却因为种种限制,而无法去改变。这个时候,还不如无知些,更幸福些。 作者就是这个样子的人,面对浑浊的社会,用荒腔走调的行为来抗议,在大多人的眼里...
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》。
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