Literary Fiction· United States
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy TooleAggregate Editorial Score59/100
★Pulitzer Prize
Published 1981391 pagesEnglish
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John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces (1981) stands as one of the most significant works of literary fiction of its era. Ignatius J. Reilly, a medievalist philosopher with an enormous girth and a contempt for the modern world, lurches through New Orleans in this posthumously published comic masterpiece. Toole's Pulitzer winner was rejected by publishers during his lifetime; his mother's persistence led to its publication and triumph. Themes of eccentricity, New Orleans, satire run through the work. The book has received recognition from Pulitzer Prize 1981.
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