A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

The book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. A Confederacy of Dunces was not published until a decade after the death of the author. This wildly inventive and amusing novel featu res one of the most unforgettable characters in modern fiction: Ignatius Reilly. He's a mammoth misfit Medievalist hilariously at od ds with the world of the twentieth century, and his adventures take him to 'way down, to New Orleans' lower depths.