The book The Conspiracy of Fools was written in the 1960s. Unable to find a publisher, the author committed suicide. Eleven years later, his mother arranged for the book to be published. The main character is Ignatius Reilly, a master of medieval studies who, at the age of thirty, lives with his uneducated and drunken single mother. In his room, he writes a monumental critique of modern society. One evening, he and his mother crash into a building. Because they have to pay for the damage, he is forced to find a job for the first time in his life. On the streets of New Orleans, he gets involved in many entertaining adventures... The book won the Pulitzer Prize and is available in 18 languages. It was ranked 6th in the list of the best prose works of American literature of the last quarter century.