Posted by lereto on February 19, 2002, at 16:17:14
In reply to A Confederacy of Dunces Questions, posted by kiddo on February 19, 2002, at 12:05:30
I have read Confederacy of Dunces twice, and I love it. The second time was just a few months ago. There was an interesting story on NPR awhile back about a new biography of John Kenndy Toole. He had some kind of psychotic disorder in the the years before his death. He was severly mentally ill, though not at the time he wrote the book (as far as anyone knows.) Those who knew him empatically deny that Ignatius=John Toole. They say he was nothing like Ignatius and that his mother was nothing like Ignatius's mother.
Toole was gay, by the way.
His mother was responsible for getting the book published after his suicide. She bugged a lot of people to read it, notably, Walker Percy, who resisted her efforts for a long time, then was amazed when he finally read the book.
The bird on his head (on the cover of most editions of the book) is a parrot.
Rebecca
poster:lereto
thread:212
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/books/20020206/msgs/217.html