false 376561 20 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. 4479600 book 1938 Invitation to a Beheading total:1798|5:546|4:696|3:446|2:92|1:18| 1798 7054 2730 172 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 4 4 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 06 11:42:08 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 11:47:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 1 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 25 11:24:47 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 17 19:42:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 12186 0141185600 9780141185606 100 10 3.92 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12186.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 4 2 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 21:50:05 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 21:57:03 -0700 2007 Lolita or as out-and-out brilliant as Pale Fire, this book both draws you in and keeps you at a distance, allowing you into its world but not inside the main character's head-- at least, ...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 4 1 false Thu Feb 21 14:16:17 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 22 15:27:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 0 1 false Sat Nov 29 17:27:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 15:44:54 -0800 2008 *
Some days I like this book. Some days I don't. It's not offering any real payoff. Very little synaesthesia (sic). No obvious puns spun off with ease. Homophobia and queasy sub-Lolita imagery just makes me feel like...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 1 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 00:14:30 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 14:49:09 -0800 2008
i liked:
the constant feeling of watching an absurd theatre play
chapter 18
chapter 19 [absolutely delicious:]
pierre, the executioner. y...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 5 1 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jun 03 14:04:59 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 14:09:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 4 1 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Sep 12 16:29:34 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 17:00:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 4 0 true Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Feb 17 20:43:18 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 20:48:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 4 1 false Sat Jun 07 13:03:54 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 11:01:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 5 0 false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 17:51:53 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 18:31:32 -0700 2009
Every phrase is a work of art, every word drips with melancholy, with longing and passion. This book is truly phenomenal. That being said, I have to acknowle...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 5 1 false Wed Dec 12 21:34:37 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 21:36:12 -0800 2007 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 15:58:01 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 16:51:56 -0700 2009
The Kafkaesque early 20th century discourse on insanity was interesting, but not earth shattering, and I believe that the story was injured by translation.

Cincinatus C.is gaoled alone in an em...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Sat Nov 21 03:18:04 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 03:18:04 -0800 2009 این یادداشت را در جای ...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Mon Dec 15 10:53:50 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:53:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:34:09 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:38:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 30 07:28:15 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 09:03:38 -0700 2009
Invitation to a Beheading is the story of the imprisonment of Cinncinatus, a man who has been sentenced to death for a crime no one will actually mention. His time in prison d...more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:30:22 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 07:28:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:48:47 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 13:17:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 1674 158 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3 0 false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:39:08 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:32:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12186