| :: a confederacy of dunces [seed!] | [add to favorites] | | :: Flagged for Review due to Duplicate Itemauthor | | a confederacy of dunces is a novel written by john kennedy toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. the book was published through the efforts of the writer walker percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and toole's mother, quickly becoming a cult classic. toole posthumously won the pulitzer prize for fiction for the book in 1981. it is an important part of the 'modern canon' of southern literature. | | [Edit Description] [previous edits] |
| :: don quixote (12 of 15 people agree) | | AGREE or DISAGREE | Why you would love don quixote...
a confederacy is a modern version of don quixote - not modernizations in the sense of a modern adaptation, but rather the story follows an eccentric character who takes the reader on hilarious, insightful and exciting adventures, and you're sad when the book is over. | | [Edit Description] [previous edits] |
| :: murphy (8 of 15 people agree) | | AGREE or DISAGREE | Why you would love murphy...
murphy is a clear forerunner of ignatius's cripplingly funny solopcism, academic hubris, and mock-heroic rhetoric. stick with the knottier passages (and look up words like 'triorchous'--meaning three-testicled--and 'acathisia'--morbid fear of sitting) for the comic and literary payoff. | | [Edit Description] [previous edits] |
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