In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Reilly, an educated but slothful man still living with his mother at age 30 in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, due to an incident early in the book, must set out to get a job. The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s.
Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the authors mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The title derives from the epigraph by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting) Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. It is an important part of the 'modern canon' of Southern literature. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Tooles death.
The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide.
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