Invitation to a Beheading

English

Series: Vintage International Ser.

ISBN: 0307787354

EAN: 9780307787354

Category: Fiction / Literary

Publisher: Vintage

Release Date: 02/16/2011

Synopsis: 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 last 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 cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Invitation to a Beheading

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 240