A Confederacy of Dunces
内容简介
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter," it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.
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作者简介
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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读书文摘
“当一个真正的天才出现在这个世界上，蠢蛋们都会联合起来攻击他，由此你可以辨认出他。”[1] ——乔纳森·斯威夫特
心理医生比反动分子更可怕。我才不要被洗脑，我不要变成个机器人！ 关在里面的人唯一的问题就是他们不喜欢新车子和发胶。这样他们就被关起来了！因为他们让社会其他成员感到害怕，这个国家的每一个精神病院里都挤满了可怜的灵魂，只是因为他们受不了羊脂、玻璃纸、塑料以及电视！
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