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  • Chapter 22 - A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond

  • Edited by T. R. Johnson, Tulane University, Louisiana
  • Book:
    New Orleans
    Published online:
    23 August 2019
    Print publication:
    05 September 2019, pp 292-300

  • Summary

    Charles Baudelaire’s notion of the flaneur – a figure who mingles with crowds and street scenes but also observes and documents the sights from a distance – captures well the early life of John Kennedy Toole and the character of Ignatius Reilly at the center of his famous novel. Ignatius is modeled upon a colleague of Toole’s at a small college in Lafayette, Louisiana, a scholar of Medieval culture and history who came from New Orleans. It also traces the novel’s publication history and extraordinary success in the Spanish-speaking world, as well as the tragic end to young novelist’s life by suicide.