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'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.' Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . . 'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' The New York Times
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A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy
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- Année de publication
- 2011
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- Abîmé
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- 7,97 €
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy
- Éditeur
- Penguin Books
- Publié
- 2011
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0241951593
- ISBN13
- 9780241951590
- Séries
- Recueil
- Penguin essentials
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Humour, Classiques, États-Unis, Littérature américaine, Comédies, New York, Satire, Alcool, Sectes et cultes, Ironie, Chaos, Années 60, Étrange, Classicisme, Nouvelle-Orléans, Année 1989, Prix Pulitzer, Louisiane, Paresse
- Première publication
- 1980
- Titre original
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- 'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.' Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . . 'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' The New York Times