La conjura de los necios

“When a true genius appears in the world, you can recognize him by this sign: all the fools are in confederacy against him.” The quote is from the satirist Jonathan Swift, and the unusual genius who stars in Toole’s grotesquely comic novel is the corpulent Ignatius J. Reilly, a man of extraordinary erudition and gargantuan appetites. With biting satire and unforgettable characters, A Confederacy of Dunces brilliantly critiques social dysfunction, human folly, and the clash between intellect and reality.