num_pages: 394
description: Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective.His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession of jobs. Each job rapidly escalates into a lunatic adventure, a full-blown disaster; yet each has, like Don Quixote's, its own eerie logic.His girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff of the Bronx, thinks he needs sex. Ignatius is an intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt, and one-man war against everybody: Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times. A tragicomedy, set in New Orleans.
language: English
title: A Confederacy of Dunces
titlecomplete: A Confederacy of Dunces
characters: Burma Jones, Irene Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Santa Battaglia, Lana Lee, Angelo Mancuso, Ignatius Jacques Reilly
genres: Literature, American, Audiobook, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 268860
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Grove Weidenfeld