by John Kennedy Toole · ISBN 9789727101177
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel by American author John Kennedy Toole. The story follows Ignatius J. Reilly, an eccentric and obese intellectual who lives with his mother in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The novel is a satire of modern society and explores themes such as alienation, bureaucracy, and the search for meaning in an absurd world. Considered a masterpiece of American literature, it was published posthumously in 1980 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, he wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he shelved in the same year, not finding a willing publisher; he later dismissed it as "adolescent". Toole was a successful and popular professor, first at University of Southwestern Louisiana, then Hunter College, and finally St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans. Having persuaded Simon & Schuster, however, to accept A Confederacy of Dunces, he was unable to resolve editorial disputes. Due in part to the novel's failure, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
