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A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
is a
picaresque novel
by American novelist
John Kennedy Toole
which appeared in
1980
, eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer
Walker Percy
(who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, the book became first a
cult classic
, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
in 1981, and is now considered a
canon
ical work of modern
literature of the Southern United States
.
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