A Novel
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Köp båda 2 för 519 kr[Toole's] novel is a parade of victorious laughter, just like those famous jazz funerals in New Orleans.-- "The Millions" An astonishingly original and assured comic spree.-- "New York Magazine" Crazy magnificent once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. . . . There is a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created.-- "Publishers Weekly" One of the funniest books ever written . . . it will make you laugh out lough till your belly aches and your eyes water.-- "The New Republic" One of the most revered comic works in the modern canon.-- "Slate" The novel can hardly contain burstingly funny Ignatius--and the mix of high and low comedy is almost stroboscopic: brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic.-- "Kirkus Reviews" To the charms of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. . . . A pungent work of slapstick, satire, and intellectual incongruities.-- "New York Times"
John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. After graduating from Tulane University, he received a master's degree from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College. Much of the first draft of A Confederacy of Dunces was written while he was in the army, stationed in Puerto Rico and teaching English to new recruits.