The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces

The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces
Title The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces PDF eBook
Author Stephan Eicke
Publisher McFarland
Pages 230
Release 2022-12-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1476689318

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For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships shattered, reputations trashed, production companies bankrupted. Drawing on exclusive interviews, internal documents and private correspondence, this book tells the remarkable story of the non-making of A Confederacy of Dunces as a breathless and absurdist thriller. Celebrity appearances include John Belushi, Steven Soderbergh, Stephen Fry, Robin Williams, Warren Beatty and Harvey Weinstein, among others.

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces
Title A Confederacy of Dunces PDF eBook
Author John Kennedy Toole
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages 414
Release 2007-12-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0802197620

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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 Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Ken and Thelma

Ken and Thelma
Title Ken and Thelma PDF eBook
Author Fletcher, Joel
Publisher Pelican Publishing
Pages 224
Release 2005-03-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781455606986

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"Ken has a real gift for mimicry and a refined sense of the absurd . . . the English faculty . . .both fear and court Ken because of his biting comic talent." --from Joel L. Fletcher's journal John Kennedy Toole's first published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which Walker Percy called a"gargantuan tumultuous human tragi-comedy," became a publishing phenomenon, with almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. The book's outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an icon of contemporary American fiction. Now Ken and Thelma sheds new light on the tragic life story of the author, known as 'Ken' to his friends. Drawing on his own journals and personal letters, Joel L. Fletcher recreates his friendship with Ken in the early 1960s and his long association with Ken's indomitable mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, after the book's publication. Ken and Thelma features personal photographs, many never before published.

The Struggle Behind the Soundtrack

The Struggle Behind the Soundtrack
Title The Struggle Behind the Soundtrack PDF eBook
Author Stephan Eicke
Publisher McFarland
Pages 228
Release 2019-07-30
Genre Music
ISBN 1476676313

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Do you want to pick up a light saber whenever you hear John Williams' Star Wars theme? Get the urge to ride into the desert and face down steely-eyed desperados to the refrain of Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Does Hans Zimmer's Pirates of the Caribbean score have you talking like Jack Sparrow? From the Westerns of the 1960s to current blockbusters, composers for both film and television have faced new challenges--evermore elaborate sound design, temp tracks, test audiences and working with companies that invest in film score recordings all have led to creative sparks, as well as frustrations. Drawing on interviews with more than 40 notable composers, this book gives an in-depth analysis of the industry and reveals the creative process behind such artists as Klaus Badelt, Mychael Danna, Abel Korzeniowski, Walter Murch, Rachel Portman, Alan Silvestri, Randy Thom and others.

The Liar

The Liar
Title The Liar PDF eBook
Author Stephen Fry
Publisher Soho Press
Pages 255
Release 1993
Genre Fiction
ISBN 156947012X

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Adrian Healy loves to lie, and already in his public school career, marked by privilege and pederasty, he had lost the ability to differentiate between simple truth and his elaborate fictions.

Butterfly in the Typewriter

Butterfly in the Typewriter
Title Butterfly in the Typewriter PDF eBook
Author Cory MacLauchlin
Publisher Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Pages 354
Release 2012-03-27
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0306820404

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The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces"), whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of the most amazing publishingstories in American literature.

The White Hotel

The White Hotel
Title The White Hotel PDF eBook
Author D. M. Thomas
Publisher Penguin
Pages 264
Release 1993-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101651504

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The million copy, Booker Prize finalist, besteller “To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is heart-stunning.”—The New York Times It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.