Alliance of the fools

Author's name: John Kennedy Toole Publisher: Nineveh for Studies, Publishing, and Distribution Year of publication: 2014 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Genius remains hidden in its concealment, resistant to perception, until the eye that perceives it comes and brings it to light, but this moment may be delayed more than necessary, and foolish eyes may reap the genius before that smart eye arrives. This is exactly what happened with the American writer Kennedy "John Kennedy Toole," whose publishers conspired against him by rejecting his novel manuscript "A Confederacy of Dunces," which drove him to commit suicide on March 26, 1969, leaving behind his manuscript, which he always believed was a great artistic impact. Toole's idea was proven by his mother, who continued his dream and found a publisher with the help of writer "Wiker Percy" after more than twenty years, to have this "comedic epic" win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1981, in a tragic scene of an old writer who lived through complete rejection. The Arabic translation of the novel was published by Nineveh House (2015) by Adnan Benghajat, after being translated into dozens of languages. Today, "A Confederacy of Dunces" is considered one of the classics of American literature, and one of the hallmarks of the black satire style that appeared in American storytelling in the twentieth century. The dormant young academic "Ignatius" —disinterested in life and annoyed by the trivialities of the world— lives in a state of complete withdrawal after his "smart graduation," as his mother describes it, and spends his days relaxing, "all he does is relax at home and watch television," until events force him to go out and look for work after his mother was involved in a car accident and had to pay large compensations to the injured.