Toole, John Kennedy His copy of: JOYCE, JAMES. FINNEGANS WAKE. THE VIKING PRESS, NEW YORK, 1959 8vo, later edition (Compass Book series), john kennedy toole's contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper ("Ken Toole. | Columbia University | New York 27") and substantive annotations on eleven pages of the text, original paper covers, preservered in quarter green morocco folding box, some early gatherings loose a fascinating and rare example of toole as a close reader. Although -- like so many before and since -- he appears not to have completed the book, the eye for nuance and repetition, and the breadth of literary reference brought to bear by the twenty-two year old graduate upon the initial chapters of the most linguistically complex of all modern novels, is remarkable. John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, set in New Orleans in the early 1960s, was published in 1980, eleven years after the author's suicide, and only through the efforts of his mother, who had found a smeared carbon copy typescript of the novel after his death, and the author Walker Percy of Loyola University, to whom she took the manuscript.
Toole, John Kennedy His copy of: JOYCE, JAMES. FINNEGANS WAKE. THE VIKING PRESS, NEW YORK, 1959 8vo, later edition (Compass Book series), john kennedy toole's contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper ("Ken Toole. | Columbia University | New York 27") and substantive annotations on eleven pages of the text, original paper covers, preservered in quarter green morocco folding box, some early gatherings loose a fascinating and rare example of toole as a close reader. Although -- like so many before and since -- he appears not to have completed the book, the eye for nuance and repetition, and the breadth of literary reference brought to bear by the twenty-two year old graduate upon the initial chapters of the most linguistically complex of all modern novels, is remarkable. John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, set in New Orleans in the early 1960s, was published in 1980, eleven years after the author's suicide, and only through the efforts of his mother, who had found a smeared carbon copy typescript of the novel after his death, and the author Walker Percy of Loyola University, to whom she took the manuscript.
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