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A confederacy of dunces

Title: A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.
Author: Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
Publication: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

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Additional Authors

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990

Description

vii, 338 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A spectacular, Pultizer Prize-winning novel by a master of comedy, beloved by readers and critics alike. The place is the French Quarter, the characters, denizens of New Orleans's lower depths.
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, a 30-year-old medievalist who lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, and pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed. Considered by many a comic masterpiece that memorably evokes the city of New Orleans and whose robust protagonist is a modern-day Falstaff, Don Quixote, or Gargantua; other are not amused by a fat, flatulent, gluttonous, loud, lying, hypocritical, self-deceiving, self-centered blowhard who masturbates to memories of a dog.

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Awards (note)

Call Number

JFE 80-3054

ISBN

LCCN

79020190

OCLC

5336849

Author

Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.

Title

A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1981.

Added Author

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFE 80-3054