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John Kennedy Toole
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is the great comic novel of New Orleans: a riotous, big-hearted farce built around Ignatius J. Reilly, a fat, flatulent, medieval-minded blowhard who lives with his mother and rages against the modern world while spectacularly failing to function in it.