Book Club reads “A Confederacy of Dunces”

Book Club reads “A Confederacy of Dunces” | 17/09/2021 | 3:00 pm-4:30 pm

Book Club reads "A Confederacy of Dunces"

The June read for the book club is “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole.

Meet the fat, flatulent and eloquent Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole’s light and pithy comic tale A Confederacy of Dunces, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ‘This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don’t make the mistake of bothering me. ‘Ignatius J. Reilly: 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.

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Location: English-language Library in Angers