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Invitation to a Beheading

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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his prison cell.

Language: English

Pages: 223

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: September 19, 1989

ISBN: 0679725318

ISBN 13: 9780679725312

Invitation to a Beheading

3.9/5 ( ratings)

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his prison cell.

Language: English

Pages: 223

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: September 19, 1989

ISBN: 0679725318

ISBN 13: 9780679725312

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