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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (36720)8/30/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
John Kennedy Toole. The story is that he submitted the book to a publisher, who rejected it, and he was so depressed over the rejection that he killed himself. He was evidently a rather odd character; I get the impression that the principal character, who was an odd one even by our exemplary standards, was a bit of a self-portrait.

I read somewhere that the initial rejection was because the editor who read the manuscript thought that the portrayal of the Jewish characters was anti-Semitic, though I don't know that it's true. The Jewish characters were not portrayed very kindly, but neither was the rest of the human race.

Not a perfect novel - I think it would have benefited from some editing - but a very good one, and it's sad to think what else he might have done if he'd lived.
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