John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" is converted into Persian by Peyman Khaksar.

IBNA: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published by LSU Press in 1980, eleven years after the author's suicide at age 32. After its publication, the book quickly became a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is now considered a canonical work of modern Southern literature. 

The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. Reilly, an educated but slothful 30-year-old man still living with his mother in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, due to an incident early in the book, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.

"A Confederacy of Dunces" is regarded by American people as a comic masterpiece whose characters are real, tangible and believable. The main character of the novel resembles its writer Toole, as he also lived with his mother and underwent the same problems in life. After his suicide in 1969, his mother found his handwritings among his things and decided to publish them. 

The main subject matter of this novel is modern slavery and problems of second-degree citizens in the American society. Throughout the novel we face characters not in control of their lives that relate most of events in their lives to fate and supernatural forces. 

The American Dream and individual attempts to realize that is another theme of this novel. Everyone is trying to reach economical growth and financial welfare and this is shown as the main obsession of all characters in this novel. 

"A Confederacy of Dunces" penned by John Kennedy Toole and translated into Persian by Peyman Khaksar will be released by Cheshmeh Publications soon.

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