A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces
de John Kennedy Toole

416 pp.
Penguin Books, 2011
9780241951590

Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.