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...  

同事汀爷下个月就要去澳洲留学了，他本是个土生土长的北京胡同男孩子，隔三差五就得吃顿卤煮、爆肚或者小肠陈的主儿，没事喜欢玩玩老百姓玩的古玩瓷片儿之类，再要么就是自己去仅存的胡同或者四合院里逛上一逛，感慨一下近些年政府的“混”，把这么多好宅子这么好的胡同都拆了...  

用户评价

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》。

amusingly profane!

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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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