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kleinbl00 · 3355 days ago · link · · parent · post: Bl00's Reviews #8: "A Confederacy of Dunces" by Ken Toole
The preface mentions that it's one of the few pieces of the period that wrote African Americans as anything other than a caricature but at the same time, Jones is every bit as short-sighted and self-destructive as everyone else. His self-destructive dimension just happens to be in a different direction. Every character in CoD is tragic. They are all tragic because they all invariably make the wrong choices for the wrong reasons at every juncture. I had a real hard time seeing anything else through the bleakness.