'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities. Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Tooles lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs 'slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the. Reilly, is 'huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. The quote is by the satirist Jonathan Swift, and the unlikely genius at the center of Toole’s grotesquely comic novel is the corpulent Ignatius J. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

John Kennedy Tooles hero, one Ignatius J. A Confederacy of Dunces, comic novel by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) - Kindle edition by Toole, John Kennedy, Walter Percy. A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyĪ monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

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