Irulan wrote:
Aimless wrote:
John Kennedy Toole who wrote Confederacy of Dunces and committed suicide when he couldn't get it published. Later it won a Pulitzer. Funny funny book.
I just googled him - he resembled our poet Norwid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwid in the fact that he wasn't appreciated when still alive. (Now we are tortured with Norwid at our schools; I don't like his poems
).
Confederacy of Dunces is set in New Orleans and is about a character described as Caliban meets Rabelais. Very few things make me laugh out loud, but this book did.