![]() ![]() It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. ![]() ![]() He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece that outswifts Swift, whose poem gives the book its. Ignatius must get a job…Ībout the Author: John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces.The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. A stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpieceĪ monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this is Ignatius J. ![]()
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