Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review
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).
- ISBN10 0802130208
- ISBN13 9780802130204
- Publish Date 21 January 1994 (first published 1 June 1980)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Edition 20th Anniversary ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English