false 72453675 466017 376561 0679725318 9780679725312 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392m/376561.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174286392s/376561.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading 3.93 1700 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.]]> 5152 3.94 98504 6236 1938 4 0 false Fri Sep 25 09:41:27 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 09:41:27 -0700 2009