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A Confederacy of Dunces

4 Ratings: 3.5

A book by John Kennedy Toole

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Author: John Kennedy Toole

Genre: Literature & Fiction

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

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review by cecilbothwell. November 19, 2007

Been there, dunce that

A wonderfully funny novel -- with a protagonist so bizarre and beyond the pale that a reader almost longs for him to go away -- this book is a marvel of nuttiness and despair. Though it feels less weighty and far less politically correct than many other Pulitzer Prize winners, the award does not suprise me in the least. That it was awarded posthumously -- the author a suicide long before publication -- overhangs the book with an air of irredeemable loss which only contributes to the reading. The … more

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review by SamSattler. August 19, 2007

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A Tragic Masterpiece

I first read John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces not too long after its initial publication and I remember being particularly saddened by the fact that such a talented writer had committed suicide even before his first book had been published. I found it incredibly sad that the world had been deprived of such a talent and wondered what might have been. But, despite the fact that the book has been on my shelves for more than two decades, and all my good intentions, I never got around to … more

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review by LynnHoffman. August 30, 2006

If Tom Wolfe had decided to depict the pathetic rather than the ambitious

New Orleanian Ignatius J. Reilly is monstrously fat. The corners of his mouth sink "into little folds filled with dasaproval and potato chip crumbs". The reader can almost smell his stale odor wafting off the page. He's lazy, unbearably prudish and arrogant, a thirty something agoraphobic who lives at home with his mother and writes hilariously bad prose in the service of a pretend book on medeival and modern civilizations. He is shrill and dishonest, both selfish and self-deluded. … more

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