John Kennedy Toole @50

A reflection on John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, written 50 years after the author's death.

"What I remembered was in the novel’s opening scene. When Patrolman Mancuso tries to arrest Ignatius—thereby setting off the novel’s madcap chain of events—Ignatius Jacques Reilly is standing alone on Canal Street, waiting for his mother, lost in his private worldview: doing nothing more than minding his own strange and beautiful business."

Read the article: Public Books