La Conjura De Los Necios John Kennedy Toole (... -

The story follows Ignatius’s disastrous attempts to join the workforce to help his mother pay off a debt. From a chaotic stint at a pants factory to a surreal attempt at selling hot dogs, his adventures bring him into contact with a vibrant cast of New Orleans characters: His "ex-girlfriend" and intellectual rival.

The novel’s real-world backstory is bittersweet. After failing to find a publisher during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole died by suicide in 1969. His mother, , spent years relentlessly pitching the manuscript until novelist Walker Percy finally read it. Upon its publication in 1980, it became an instant classic and posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Why It Endures La Conjura De Los Necios John Kennedy Toole (...

The heart of the novel is , a "modern-day Quixote" living in 1960s New Orleans. He is a gargantuan, eccentric, and misanthropic intellectual who lives with his mother. Armed with a frantic worldview based on medieval philosophy (specifically Boethius), Ignatius wages a one-man war against the "lack of geometry and theology" in the modern world. Plot and Style The story follows Ignatius’s disastrous attempts to join