Don Quijote De La Mancha y A Confederacy of Dunces: Aventuras y Desventuras de Don Quijote e Ignatius Reilly
Don Quijote De La Mancha and A Confederacy of Dunces: Don Quixote’s and Ignatius Reilly’s Adventures and Misadventures

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the comparative analysis of the adventures and misadventures of two characters belonging to two different literary, socio-cultural and historical epochs: Don Quixote and Ignatius Reilly, the latter being the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole’s novel, A Confederacy of Dunces. The aim of the analysis is, on the one hand, to highlight the function the adventures and misadventures carry out in the protagonists’ lives and, on the other hand, to gain insight into the special logic of some of Don Quixote’s and Ignatius Reilly’s adventures by comparing the characters’ goals, attitudes and conduct.

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