Literary Fiction

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

A picaresque tragicomedy set in 1960s New Orleans, chronicling the misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, a bloated, medieval-minded misanthrope living with his mother. Through Ignatius's catastrophic attempts at employment and his encounters with the city's eccentric underclass, Toole crafts a savage satire of American culture. This posthumously published novel won the Pulitzer Prize and remains a cult classic of Southern grotesque humor.

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