5/24/2023 0 Comments A confederacy of dunces author![]() ![]() Beset by mental problems, and fearing he was doomed to failure after the rejection of his novel by Simon and Schuster, Toole took his own life on March 26 1969. Yet it was almost never published at all. “This funny book is the kind one wants to keep quoting from,” wrote Burgess. Toole’s masterpiece widely considered best comic novels of all time, is in David Bowie’s list of top reads and was included by author Anthony Burgess in Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 - A Personal Choice. ![]() The picaresque novel is about the adventures of a memorably grotesque waster from New Orleans called Ignatius J. ![]() The comedian has given the novel as a present to dozens of friends, confident that each time he will secure “another convert to this brilliant, weird and surreal tale”. Billy Connolly once described John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces as "my favourite book of all time”. ![]()
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