
- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2000
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118286-5
- Pages:
- 338
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Igatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh -pots of a fallen city, filling his Big Chief tablets with invective, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Igatius must go to work. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.' The New York Times