'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities.
Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) 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. 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. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. 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. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) - Kindle edition by Toole, John Kennedy, Walter Percy. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. 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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