He fails as a revolutionary and loses both jobs but finds love in the end. Skewering the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s, Ignatius uses his positions to wage illiberal social revolutions under the guise of race, labor, and gay liberation. Ignatius reluctantly searches for work, first at the Levy Pants manufacturing plant and then selling Lucky Dogs on the streets of New Orleans’s French Quarter. Ignatius lives with his pitiable, put-upon mother Irene, who encourages her son to do something besides the things he loves to do most: watch movies, masturbate, and write long, convoluted letters to a possible paramour-turned-rival named Myrna Minkoff. The plot of A Confederacy of Dunces is simple yet sprawling. Reilly-and an equally eccentric cast of characters-as he searches for a job, a sense of purpose, and perhaps even love on the streets of 1960s New Orleans. The satirical, episodic novel traces the madcap travails of Ignatius J. Novelist John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) is one of New Orleans’s most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books. A Confederacy of Dunces Despite the difficulties John Kennedy Toole faced while trying to publish A Confederacy of Dunces, the novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and sell more than two million copies.īook jacket cover of "A Confederacy of Dunces" printed by LSU press in 1980.
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