A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a lengthy ode to the difficulty of being lazy. So many people in this novel work so hard to get out of working. Ignatius struggles and flops like a bloated, electrocuted flounder in his desperate efforts to avoid work; Mr. Levy creates headaches for himself because he doesn't want to work; Burma Jones spends the whole novel working to get out of his crappy job.
A Confederacy of Dunces is one of two novels written by John Kennedy Toole, the other being The Neon Bible, which he wrote at age 16.Neither book was published during Toole's lifetime. Following Toole's suicide, his mother sought out author Walker Percy and insisted that he read the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces.
A Confederacy of Dunces Homework Help Questions. Does Ignatius have Aspergers Syndrome? Forced me to reread certain parts of the novel. I am a teacher and have seen Asperger's Syndrome in my.
