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Title: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy ISBN: 0-606-20071-1 Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media Pub. Date: January, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.40

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Ignatius J. Reilly- the original "slacker"
Comment: Ignatius Reilly was the original slacker back when this novel was written in the early sixties- before there was a name for it. It isn't that he just avoids work for it's own sake, it is just that he just doesn't have the time or patience for what the modern commercial world considers to be work. He has better things to do with his time. You see, Ignatius is a thoroughly medieval man. His is primarily an internal life grounded and centerered in "theology and geometry." According to these consistent standards, Ignatius' life, behavior, and appearance are perfectly rational and understandable. Unfortunately, Ignatius lives in mid-twentieth century America, a time and place of mind-numbing conformity, intolerance, and efficiency. He is doomed to perpetual misunderstanding and conflict.

That is the tragedy to this most excellent of commedies- being an intelligent misfit in a world of mind-numbing conformity. The author choose to leave it rather than conform, while Ignatius found the inner strength to fight and/or disreguard it. Neither let it possess and change them into modern mass-produced robots in the consumer society.....

I wish that I could give it 500 stars.