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"Écrit au début des années soixante par un jeune inconnu qui devait se suicider en 1969, à l'âge de trente-deux ans, parce qu'il se croyait un écrivain raté, La Conjuration des imbéciles n'a été éditée qu'en 1980. Le plus drôle dans cette histoire, pour peu qu'on goûte l'humour noir, c'est qu'aussitôt publié, le roman a connu un immense succès outre-Atlantique et s'est vu couronné en 1981 par le prestigieux prix Pulitzer.Une façon pour les Américains de démentir à retardement le pied de nez posthume que leur adressait l'écrivain, plaçant en exergue à son livre cette citation de Swift : "Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaître à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui." " Bernard Le Saux, Le Matin
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mothers, travel, housing, character, sons, groups, loneliness, Young men, Mothers and sons, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, humorous, Mothers and sons, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Large type books, American literature, Madres e hijos, Novela, Hombres jóvenesShowing 8 featured editions. View all 69 editions?
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A Confederacy of Dunces
2006, Grove Press
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0802130208 9780802130204
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La Conjuration des imbéciles
August 1, 2002, Editions 10/19
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2264034882 9782264034885
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A confederacy of dunces
1995, Wings Books, Distributed by Random House Value Pub.
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0517122707 9780517122709
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Ignaz oder Die Verschwörung der Idioten. Roman.
January 1, 1988, Dtv
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342310841X 9783423108416
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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."
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