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March 10, 2013A Confederacy of Dunces

The Curse of the Confederacy of Dunces

This programme features Toole’s biographer, the very excellent Cory MacLauchlin. Confederacy of DuncesCory MacLauchlinIgnatius J ReillyJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans

March 5, 2013philosophical literature

Frederick Rolfe a.k.a. Baron Corvo

Given a papal change is underway, Rolf’s Hadrian the Seventh is as timely as ever, and in my view happens to be one of the top five novels of the 20th Century. Here is David Bradshaw’s reliable Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry. Part and parcel of the Corvo legend is Symons’ classic biography of Corvo, Corvo brought to Symons’…

February 8, 2013philosophical literature

Butterfly in the Typewriter

I want to give a plug to the superb biography on JK Toole written by Cory MacLauchlin. He brilliantly marshals the Toole story into a plausible and coherent whole given that much of what we know was severely modulated through Thelma Toole and who along with Robert Gottlieb tend to be cast (for different reasons) as the…

February 3, 2013philosophical literature

Scholarship and A Confederacy of Dunces

Few offer as balanced a scholarly assessment of “Dunces” and Toole than Vernon Leighton, Cory MacLauchlin and Robert Rudnicki. The three must surely be the first port of call for those engaged in Toole related research. Here is Leighton’s blog and here is a collection of his articles. Toole’s biographer Cory MacLauchlin has presented a fine exemplar the art of…

January 29, 2013philosophical fiction, philosophical humor, philosophical literature

A Confederacy of Dunces

Here is a documentary film John Kennedy Toole: the omega point freely available to view. The subject matter, the greatest American novel of the 20th Century putting Toole (IMHO) up there with novelists of the order of Kafka, Musil, and Mann – and that based on one work alone. Here is the excellent blog run by JKT’s…