Confederacy of Dunces, A - John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
— Jonathan Swift
“THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING”
Foreword
Perhaps the best way to introduce this novel — which on my third reading of it astounds me even more than the first — is to tell of my first encounter with it. While I was teaching at Loyola in 1976 I began to get telephone calls from a lady ...