After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers.
Adulation for Toole\'s comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago..
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire.
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.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole\'s novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J.
This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.
Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during 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 more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers
