Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire 20th century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses and perversions of the past 400 years. He lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake.
About the Author
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novelA Confederacy of Dunces.Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript ofA Confederacy of Duncesto the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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