Pathos and Comfort of the City Against the βTorrents of Progressβ: Ignatius Reillyβs New Orleans in John Kennedy Tooleβs π΄ πΆππππππππππ¦ ππ π·π’ππππ
Authors:
Petra Sapun
Kurtin
University of Rijeka, Croatia
Pages:
154-
167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/NAFS5415
Abstract:
Viewed from the perspective of the trickster-type main character Ignatius Reilly and his engagement with his surroundings and other characters as citizens in a series of picaresque adventures, the city of New Orleans in the novel π΄ πΆππππππππππ¦ ππ π·π’ππππ (1980) becomes a space of pathos and comfort, indicative of Ignatiusβs paralysis and inability to leave it, caused by his innate paranoia of the doctrine of progress in the modern age. At a point in history when the postcolonial and postindustrial city is trying to rebrand itself as a tourist haven, the chronotope of New Orleans functions as a place of suspended modernity, offering comfort in the pathos of its entropy, stagnation and nostalgia against the raging torrents of modernity that reign outside its city limits in the rest of the country.
Keywords:
New Orleans, port city, π΄ πΆππππππππππ¦ ππ π·π’ππππ , modernity, progress, the picaresque, pathos and comfort of the city, nostalgia
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