A Confederacy of Dunces
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy 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 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States. The book's title refers to an epigram from
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1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces
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2003-11-19T22:38:34Z
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2024-09-10T07:23:46Z
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