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John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969)

Autor/a de La Conxorxa dels ximples

4 obres 22,446 Membres 493 Ressenyes 93 preferits

Sobre l'autor

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 17, 1937. He received an undergraduate degree in English from Tulane University in 1958 and a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1959. He started to pursue a doctorate at Columbia, but he was drafted mostra'n més into the U.S. Army in 1961 before he was able to finish. He served for two years at Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico, teaching English to Spanish-speaking recruits. He taught at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Hunter College in Manhattan, and St. Mary's Dominican College. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces and sent a copy to Simon and Schuster for publication, but it was rejected. His failure to get his novel published and his increasing frustration at living with and supporting his parents brought on a breakdown. He committed suicide on March 26, 1969 at the age of 31. A Confederacy of Dunces was finally published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Neon Bible, which he wrote when he was sixteen years old, was published in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de John Kennedy Toole

La Conxorxa dels ximples (1980) 21,270 exemplars
La Bíblia de neó (1989) 1,174 exemplars
1988 1 exemplars
Neon Bible 1 exemplars

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A Confederacy of Dunces a Someone explain it to me... (abril 2021)
1001 Group Read - March, 2013: A Confederacy of Dunces a 1001 Books to read before you die (març 2013)

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an interesting and fun read. I felt the ending too abrupt-but probably only because I wanted more.The characters, with slight exaggerations, were people I knew from my childhood
 
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cspiwak | Hi ha 470 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
Firma Antonio y fecha 21-sept-92
 
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aallegue | Hi ha 470 ressenyes més | Feb 3, 2024 |
This strikes me as the sort of book one will only like if one has known the characters in person at some point.

Ignatius exists. His mama exists. Mancuso, the Levys, Jones, Santa, Trixie... I've known all of them in some capacity or another. And if you haven't known them, for all their faults, your life is missing something.
 
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sauvignon | Hi ha 470 ressenyes més | Jan 22, 2024 |
1.75 stars. i do understand the appeal of this, i do. and it's not bad, but it is overdone, overlong, over the top. too farcical as a whole for me, while i appreciate the thematic stuff he's addressing. it would have hit harder, for me, had it been half the length. to me, this became repetitive and too clownish to be taken seriously, whereas it would have been funnier and at the same time more hard hitting if it hadn't dragged on the way it did.
½
 
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overlycriticalelisa | Hi ha 470 ressenyes més | Jan 1, 2024 |

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Obres
4
Membres
22,446
Popularitat
#947
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
493
ISBN
169
Llengües
22
Preferit
93

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