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A Confederacy of Dunces is definitely an American comic masterpiece. Steve Kennedy Toole’s idol is one Ignatius T. Reilly, “huge, fat, fractious, fastidious, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original personality, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest number of high and low comic adventures” (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times)