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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 . Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton www.doorway.ru by: 1.  · Summary. This article examines the life and work of John Kennedy Toole, focusing on his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole finished the novel in and, after failing to rework his manuscript to his editor's satisfaction, he shelved the project. Following this, he displayed symptoms typical of paranoid schizophrenia and he took his own life at the age of Author: Abhijit Pal.

The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter". "A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right.". Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. Lousiana State University Press, first American edition, third printing. p, book in very good condition with original dust jacket with minor wear to edges. Seller Image. ― John Kennedy Toole, quote from A Confederacy of Dunces "The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.".

A Confederacy of Dunces Summary and Study Guide. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in , eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in , and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States. The book's title refers to an epigram fro.