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).
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a...
John Kennedy Toolewho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece "A Confederacy of Dunces"wrote"The Neon Bible" for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication. "
John Kennedy Toolewho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece "A Confederacy of Dunces"wrote"The Neon Bible" for a lite...
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American...
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the man...
