By John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces (1st Edition)

A Confederacy of Dunces recounts the adventures of Ignatius J Reilly of New Orleans, a mammoth of a man and a martyr to trapped wind who is engaged in a Quixotic running battle against pretty much anything that the modern world can come up with. The book is peopled with interconnecting characters whose lives are buffeted and disrupted by Ignatius as he fights "offenses against taste and decency" and laments the general "lack of theology and geometry".