A Confederacy of Dunces Stephen DeStefano startling in its venom and

startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence' Guardian

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A Confederacy of Dunces Stephen DeStefano startling in its venom andHere is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective. His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession