![]() Ignatius wears his green hunting cap, flannel jacket, and tweed pants for comfort. Among Ignatius’ targets are pop culture-everything from Yogi Bear to popular movies-and modern fashion. Reilly, an obese thirty-year old unemployed medievalist with a graduate degree living with his widowed mother and composing his Magnum opus: a work that chronicles how Western society has become worse since the enlightenment. Since then, it has won the Pulitzer Prize and been given glowing reviews by The New York Times Book Review, the New York Post, and the Washington Post, and it has been adapted for the theatre with an upcoming version starring Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman.ĭunces, set in 1960s New Orleans, follows the adventures of Ignatius J. After Toole’s tragic suicide in 1969, his mother convinced academic/writer Walker Percy to help her publish it. Originally penned in the 1960s, it took until 1981 for Dunces to reach American audiences. However, there is one novel that one could make an argument for being one of the best and that is A Confederacy of Dunces, one of only two books by the late Louisiana author John Kennedy Toole. ![]() ![]() Some may be drawn to classic works with thick prose and interesting social commentary, while others may just enjoy sitting back and being entertained-those two features not being mutually exclusive. ![]() Many keen readers have different conceptions of what makes a work of fiction great. ![]()
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