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garyth123 commented on the word confederacy of dunces
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
March 6, 2009
dinkum commented on the word confederacy of dunces
WORD: confederacy of dunces
DEFINITION:
Confederacy of Dunces, A.. Title of the 1980 posthumously-published, 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning, novel by John Kennedy Toole (1937 – 1969). The title echoes the novel's epigraph, a quote from Jonathan Swift's essay, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting:"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him".
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' 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 canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States. '
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September 12, 2013