'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him' - Jonathan Swift. A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk amongst the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Cief tablets as he goes - until his maroon-haired mother decrees that he must work.
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John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get his novel published; depressed by his failure to do so he committed suicide. It is only through the tenacity of his mother, wholse faith in her son's work never wavered, that his book has found its deserved audience.
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This is a hilarious and embarrassing coming of age tail. The protagonist lives with is mother well beyond his years and drives her to drink with his antics. He is an overweight misfit with very strong opinions and very few marketing stills that must find a job to make some money to keep his mother for going to jail for crashing her car into a house. The set of outrageous characters, the outdated chivalry of the protagonist in contrast to his vulgar, slovenly, and gluttonous appearance and his intense focus on some valve in his stomach make for some hilarious antics as this crazy character is launched into the working world. I laughed out loud the many times. I also drank in the kind of New York/New Orleans connected cultures and characters which abound - most of them quite odd.
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What an amazing book! I haven't read anything I've enjoyed this thoroughly in at least a year.
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One of my favoorite books of all time. Delivered promptly and in perfect condition.
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