Wednesday, October 20, 2010

John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969)

A Confederacy of Dunces

  • title derives from Jonathan's Swift epigraph "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know hi by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
  • central character is Ignatius J. Reillly, an educated but slothful 30-year old man still living with his mother
  • in his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful New Orleans French Quarter characters

The Neon Bible

  • novel is a bildungsroman about a young man named David and his gradual learning of religious, racial, social and sexual bigotry

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