A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
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I agree that it's an American masterpiece. One of my favorite books of all time. I'm kind of glad they haven't made a movie out of it yet.
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It's always on the list of 100 greatest books ever, and it deserves it.
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