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 John Kennedy Toole in general
Newest Review: ... the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift (Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711) Think of an American version of Alan Bennett, only even more intelligent, less sympathetic to his fellow-man, and wearing a green hunting cap... Think of a ... more  ... big, fat, obnoxious version of Niles Crane from Frasier, crossed with the pompous Larry Durrell as seen in My Family and Other Animals. Think of Proust sulking in his bedroom, knowing it all, but doing nothing... Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, the on...more |
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John Kennedy Toole in general: "I walk in the world for my son" (1124 words)
by pje - written on 26/03/02 (Very useful, 243 readings)
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There is a tale in the publishing industry (hopefully apocryphal) about an author who took the rather drastic step of killing himself in order to draw attention to his novel. It worked. People rushed to read it - and they all agreed that it was crap. It's a joke that might have its origins in the tale of John Kennedy Toole - but not the crap bit though, because this guy was a genius... On March 26th, 1969, John Kennedy Toole drove to a secluded spot near Biloxi, Mississippi, connected a length of garden hose-pipe to the exhaust of his car, and left the world behind. He was thirty-one. His mother, Thelma, later discovered the manuscript of ...
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