A Confederacy of Dunces
Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages." "Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into...
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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, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original character, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures” (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun Times)Rolling Stone"A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right."
\ Henry KisorWhat a roaring, rollicking, foot stomping wonder this book is. \ —Chicago Sun-Times\ \ \ \ \ Time"If a book's price is measured against the laughs it provokes, A confederacy of Dunces is the bargain of the year."\ \ \ Henry KisorThe hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable comic classic 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, incredible true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures." -- Chicago Sun-Times\ \ \ \ \ Newsweek"An astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy."\ \ \ \ \ San Francisco Chronicle"A brilliant and evocative ovel."\ \ \ \ \ New Republic"A gem -- one of the funniest books ever written."\ \ \ \ \ The Washington Post"A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book."\ \ \ \ \ The Boston Globe"The dialogue is superbly mad. You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced."\ \ \ \ \ The Baltimore Sun"The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a story night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic."\ \ \ \ \ Rolling Stone"A Confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right."\ \ \ \ \ Monitor Christian Science"I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this ribald book."\ \ \ \ \ Examiner Los Angeles Herald"As hilarious as it indisputably is, A Confederacy of Dunces is a seriouis important work."\ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book Review"A masterwork of comedy.... The novel astonishes with its inventiveness, it lives in the play of its voices. A Confederacy of DUnces is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."\ \ \ \ \ From Barnes & NoblePublished a decade after the death of the author, this wildly inventive comic masterpiece features one of the most unforgettable characters in modern fiction: Ignatius Reilly, a mammoth misfit Medievalist hilariously at odds with the 20th-century world.\ \
