A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

AuthorJohn Kennedy Toole
GenreNovel, Picaresque
Original LanguageEnglish
First published1980
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NotesA 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, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.
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