A Confederacy Of Dunces

出版者:Louisiana State University Press

作者:John Kennedy Toole

页数:640

出版时间:2004-9-30

价格:USD 32.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780807130087

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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。

读后感

最早知道《笨蛋联盟》这本书是在某一期的《读书》上，有快10年了。印象中那文章没说多少关于书本身的事，大多篇幅都给了作者图尔。然而如今有了波拉尼奥、斯蒂格·拉森这些人物作陪，图尔恐怕也该在泉下看开了：在人生这一堆杯具里，看不到自己的作品出版永远不是最大的那一个...  

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...  

在还没有开始读这本书之前，已经被作者序写的话吸引——”我不仅仅是对自己的作品不怀有任何希望，而且对这个社会也失望透顶，像我这样的人，也许只有一条道路可以选择，那就是尽快死去，以脱离这无情的现实。“ 一个人，是怎样饱受过社会的摧残和压迫才会有这样...  

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...  

用户评价

fatass version Shelden Cooper

amusingly profane!

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》。

u will be moved

fatass version Shelden Cooper