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Vintage
September 1989
On Sale: September 19, 1989
240 pages
ISBN: 0679725318
EAN: 9780679725312
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Fiction
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.
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