The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he u[...]

An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.[...]

Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1[...]

The book of Judges is replete with female figurations, and has, therefore, received a lot of attention from feminist critics. This volume of essays, however, changes the motivation behind this apparent centrality of female figures, claiming that in fact strong androcentric premises underlie the text[...]

Tooles satiriske klassiker der den sprenglærde men arbeidsløse misantropen Reilly høylytt forbanner tiden han lever i. Regnet som en av etterkrigstidens morsomst roman. John Kennedy Tooles (1937-1969) Tåpenes sammensvergelse blir av mange regnet som en av etterkrigstidens morsomste romaner. Rom[...]

Ignatius Reilly on velttoilija ja ahmatti, pinnari, intellektuelli ja filosofi. Hän on sivistynyt laiskuri, joka asuu 30-vuotiaana yhä äitinsä luona. Mutta eräänä päivänä sattuu jotain, ja Ignatiuksen on vastoin kaikkia periaatteitaan mentävä töihin. Seuraa totaalisen hillitön seikkail[...]