A Confederacy of Dunces

De: John Kennedy Toole

Narrado por: Barrett Whitener

Duración: 13 h y 32 m

Resumen del Editor

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.

So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction.

The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pultizer Prize–winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans. This book has become an American comic masterpiece.

©1980 Thelma D. Toole (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Barrett Whitener strikes just the right note." (AudioFile)
"A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right." (Rolling Stone)
"What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, footstomping wonder this book is! I laughed until my sides ached, and then I laughed on." (Chicago Sun-Times)

entertaining!

Read this year's ago and wanted to hear it on Audible. it didn't disappoint. What a bunch of characters. you could see them living in New Orleans. What fun! Good job, Narrator.

I didn’t understand the point of the book

Maybe I’m too dumb to understand or maybe it was the point of the book to be exceptionally ridiculous. Performance was great by the narrator.

Not my style of writing

Is a slapstick farce a bit over the top and not the type of fiction I enjoy. Never identified to any of the characters.

Excellent

Great read. Intelligent comedic epic. Great audio book to read any time.
Well read. Excellent to read any time

The narrator was great! Great story too…

I enjoyed the dialects and the New Orleans accents of Barrett Whitener very much! I will listen to more works from him, for sure!

Great Book!

I love this book. New Olean's is felt and described perfectly! The writing is brilliant! I've listened to this book several times, and will likely listen to it again.

Nee Orleans classic

This is one of my favorite books and I hadn’t listened to it. Narration was wonderful and he did an excellent job giving voice to the characters. My only criticism is several of the street names were mispronounced. New Orleans pronounces things differently. Prytania, Burgundy, Chartres, Poydras and Tchoupitoulas were mispronounced. Not the narrator’s fault, but it seems if you are publishing a narrator of a book about New Orleans, it is good idea to find out how the locals pronounce things.

Why God made audio books.

What a wonderful experience! A delightful book and so expertly read. Listening to this book reminded me of something we used to call "radio". I've listned to many books and in this one each character was expertly rendered and captured.
And the story itself is captivating. It has humor galore and a bit of suspence as well. I fully agree with the opening narration that the loss of the author is a double tragegy: for his own death and for the world to lose any future books. I'd read more in a flash.

The funniest book I've listened to in a long time

You may not like this book if you are offended by ethnic stereotypes (Black, Catholic, Jewish, southern, police,intellectuals), but I found the book hilarious. The author skewers everyone including the police and the city of New Orleans. it is too bad this is his only book.

A more splendid bit of reading I shall ne'r hear

Barrett Whitener presents this work with such a thorough mastery that it must be truly love. From the first syllable Jones speaks, with a voice that must have been considered for long weeks before performing, he becomes real. I have an easy time voicing roles while reading, but I could never have imagined a more fully dimensioned character than the one iterated in this piece.

The voice acting is only enhanced by the fact that the text is also very good.