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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "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."
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Comic, classical in form, meticulous and warm.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- John Kennedy Toole
- First published
- January 1, 1982
- Pages
- 391
- Publisher
- LSU Press, RBA, Allen Lane
- Editions
- 69
- Language
- per, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789646332836
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“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel *A Confederacy of Dunces* won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a big success. He also wrote *The Neon Bible.* Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he died by suicide at the age of 31.
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