Whether it’s trying to orchestrate an uprising among the factory workers at Levy Pants or selling Paradise hot-dogs in the salubrious French quarter dressed as a pirate, Ignatius journals his working life and his efforts to make his mark in the world. Ignatius is unceremoniously thrown into the society he loathes so much to find a job and that’s when things spiral downwards. Which suits him fine as he spends most of his days stuffing himself with cakes washed down with Dr Nut, while writing vectives and essays about his worldview and the disintegration of society.īut things take a turn when Irene plows their 1946 Plymouth into a building and has to raise the money to pay for damages. This 30-year-old behemoth lives with his long-suffering mother Irene on Constantinople St, in 1960s New Orleans, unemployed and surviving on Irene’s welfare checks. Morbidly obese, slovenly, flatulent, more often than not extremely rude, yet highly educated and articulate, and at constant battle with modern society, its myriad perversions and the people living in it who dare commit “egregious offenses against taste and decency”. A Confederacy of Dunces: Book Review by Tina
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