Synopsis
El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly --una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y santo Tomás de Aquino perverso, reunidos en una persona--, que a los treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre, está ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de "teología geometría" como de "decencia y buen gusto"; un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve "catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporánea", fiebre a la que Ignatius añadirá unos cuantos grandes más.
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About John Kennedy Toole
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John Kennedy Toole
1937–1969
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel *A Confederacy of Dunces* won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a big success. He also wrote *The Neon Bible.* Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he died by suicide at the age of 31.
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