The Modern Grotesque Hero in John Kennedy Tooles, A Confederacy of Dun

The Modern Grotesque attack aircraft in bath Kennedy Tooles, A due south of Dunces prat Kennedy Toole unleashes a induce criticism of modern night club in the hint work he produced in his short lifetime, A union of Dunces. Using masterfully crafted comedy, Toole genuinely strengthens his disparaging position on the modern world. Boisterously and unabashedly opinionated, Ignatius Reilly, the principal character of this novel, colors the narrative with a poignant humor that simultaneously evokes both laughter and pity from readers. Near the beginning of the story, his mothers financial difficulties of a sudden force Ignatius to leave the womb-like security of his bedroom and seek employment, making him cast away his project of writing a scathing description of the disaster fertilise that history had been taking for the past four centuries (Toole 41) on childish voluminous Chief tablets. The action of the novel revolves around Ignatiuss experience in society as he bumbles fr om job to job with his ever-present sense of superiority. His divulgeer slovenly appearance and the incongruity between his professed beliefs and his actions create in Ignatius the persona of the modern grotesque hero. Walker Percy wrote Tooles greatest achievement is Ignatius Reilly, slob, intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof off, who should fight down the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt and one-man all out war against all of modern times... (Samway 345). Using the grotesque to further suck up the satirical conflict that man encounters with modern society, John Kennedy Toole, in A Confederacy of Dunces, artfully attacks the economic, religious, and social states of present day America.The use of such(prenominal) a grotesque principal cha... ...nre. Mississippi Quarterly 38.1 (1984-1985) 33-47.Miller, Keith D. The Conservative great deal of John Kennedy Toole. Conference of College Teachers of English Studies 48 (1993) 30-34.Nelson, William. The Comic Grotesque in Recent Fiction. Thalia-Studies in Literary Humor 5.2 (1982) 36-40.Palumbo, Carmine D. John Kennedy Toole and His Confederacy of Dunces. Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 10 (1995) 59-77.Patteson, Richard F. and Thomas Sauret. The Consolation of Illusion John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces. The Texas Review 4.1-2 (1983) 77-87.Ruppersburg, Hugh. The South and John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces. Studies in American Humor 5.2-3 (1986) 118-126.Samway, Patrick H., S.J. Walker Percy A Life. New York Farrar, 1997.Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. New York Grove, 1980.13