Adulation for Toole's comic epic remains as intense today as it was at the time of its initial publication. The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire.
The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Tooles mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the authors suicide. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in over two dozen languages.Ī Confederacy of Dunces features one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J.
Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. After four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. This wildly inventive comic masterpiece exploded on the literary scene like a time bomb in 1980.
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