Invitation to a Beheading

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.