Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces Chapter 14: psychological bankruptcy?(John Kennedy Toole)(Critical essay)

Notes on Contemporary Literature | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

The fourteenth and final chapter of John Kennedy Toole's casts doubts upon the wild episodes of the first thirteen: as he is being rescued from an approaching psychiatric ambulance by Myrna Minkoff, mad protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly acknowledges to his succubus that the countless spiral notebooks that she helps him pack into her tiny Renault--a narrative of life on the streets of New Orleans, the thirteen chapters that the reader has just experienced--contain nothing but the fantasies that occurred to him behind the closed bedroom door in his mother's house.

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