John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
I kinda just started so I was expecting a modern take on Oblomov type of character but it turned out to be a Don Quixote who fights for making society go very backwards and live a more primitive life than they already do something akin to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain mentality that aims for a nonsense improvement that actually aims for deteriorating the society that can only destroy it, however when you see the big picture this is how the usual Americans are. As anyone who doesn't live under Plato's Allogotary of the Cave knows for Americans every person should be a Don Quixote who even start war against windmills just because existence of windmills doesn't obey their subjective sense of right and therefore personal preference and that's why they "look like a monster" that should be defeated because a Don Quixote person doesn't care about facts and objectivity and therefore they are driven by their own insanity and what rights and wrong their insanity decides in a very childish mentality, they only demand and want everything in the way they want. A Don Quixote person was always what the whole world made fun of and it was the definition of a "fool" and "clown" type of people that symbolizes what kind of person you shouldn't be and it was a fundamental tool for comedy but for some reason it is the type of character deemed "superior human" in American society so much even their whole human sciences fields like business and psychology normalizes being a Don Quixote in a way when you are a non-Don Quixote they don't wanna marry you, hire you, they won't make business with you and they will think you have medical conditions and insanity ayy lmao. So in a way the writer makes fun of the whole American society in the sociology level as a persona to make fun of the way the whole country is whether he actually intended or not, still it is a very funny book.
