A Confederacy of Dunces

The protagonist of this novel is one of the most memorable characters in American literature: Ignatius Reilly -a mix of a delusional Oliver Hardy, a corpulent Don Quixote, and a perverse Saint Thomas Aquinas, all rolled into one person- who, at thirty years old, still lives with his eccentric mother, is busy writing an extensive and devastating denunciation against our century, so lacking in "theological geometry" as it is in "decency and good taste"; a deranged argument against a deranged society.

The protagonist of this novel is one of the most memorable characters in American literature: Ignatius Reilly -a mix of a delusional Oliver Hardy, a corpulent Don Quixote, and a perverse Saint Thomas Aquinas, all rolled into one person- who, at thirty years old, still lives with his eccentric mother, is busy writing an extensive and devastating denunciation against our century, so lacking in "theological geometry" as it is in "decency and good taste"; a deranged argument against a deranged society.