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1981 John Kennedy Toole La conjuration des imbéciles traduit de l'américain par J.-P. Carasso, Laffont «Drôle de livre, énorme dans la bouffonnerie et la satire, énorme comme son personnage principal, une sorte d'Ubu dévastateur qui lance des anathèmes sur un monde en décomposition.» (Lire, décembre 1981) A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities - yet flawed in places by its very virtues. Ultimately, Ignatius is simply too grotesque and loony to be taken for a genius; the world he howls at seems less awful than he does. Pratfalls can pass beyond slapstick only if they echo, and most of the ones in this novel do not. They are terribly funny, though, and if a book's price is measured against the laughs it provokes, A Confederacy of Dunces is the bargain of the year. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from. I could, with keen pleasure, copy all of Jones's dialogue out and then get down to the other characters. Apart from being a fine funny novel (but also comic in the wider sense, like Gargantua or Ulysses), this is a classic compendium of Louisiana speech. What evidently fascinated Toole (a genuine scholar, MA Columbia and so on) about his own town was something that A.J. Liebling noted in his The Earl of Louisiana: the existence of a New Orleans city accent close to the old Al Smith tonality, 'extinct in Manhattan', living alongside a plantation dialect which cried out for accurate recording. El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatus Reilly -una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y santo Tomás de Aquino, perverso, reunidos en una persona-, que a los treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de teología y geometría como de decencia y buen gusto, un alegado desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve 'catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporánea', embarcándose en empleos y empresas de lo más disparatado. Ingår i förlagsserien10/18, Domaine étranger (2010) Biblioteca Sábado (22) Compactos Anagrama (38) Llibres Anagrama (10) — 6 till Inspirerades av
Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Dock får jag tillstå att han har snickrat ihop en historia som håller. Men den är inte ett dugg intressant. De första sidorna sätter förutsättningarna: en beläst, vältalig, ful, tjock man som inte vet hur man beter sig hamnar i en massa tilltrasslade situationer. Och så fortsätter det sedan hela historien igenom utan överrsakningsmoment eller den minsta variation.
Den avskyvärt fördomsfulla skildringen av homosexuella är under all kritik, och gränsar till förföljelse. Om det ändå hade varit en åsikt begränsad till huvudpersonen Ignatius Reilly, hade det väl kunnat accepteras, men det blir tydligt att det är författarens egna syn på homosexualitet som skiner igenom.
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