Ignatius J. Reilly

fictional character

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In A Confederacy of Dunces
…comic novel is the corpulent Ignatius J. Reilly, a man of extraordinary erudition and appetites worthy of François Rabelais, a literary forebear of Toole’s. Intent on spending his time in his bedroom, binge-eating, ranting, and recording his musings on a jumbled pile of writing pads, he is forced, through an…
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