TY  - JOUR
TT  - A Dystopian Study of Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
AU  - Kalay, Faruk
PY  - 2014
DA  - December
DO  - 10.21547/jss.256822
JF  - Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
JO  - GAUN-JSS
PB  - Gaziantep University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1303-0094
SP  - 343
EP  - 351
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
KW  - Cincinnatus C.
KW  - İnfaza Çağrı
KW  - Karşı Ütopya
KW  - Vladimir Nabokov
N2  - Utopia meaning a good place in Greek is a term coined in the fictive book Utopiaby Thomas More depicting an ideal place where people prosperously live. As a reaction and antithesis to this term, dystopia is defined as "an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives" in Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Hence, Invitation to a Beheading authored by Nabokov recounts a protagonist named Cincinnatus C. sentenced to death for 'the farcical crime' (Morgan 2003: 281) of 'gnostic turpitude' which has a sarcastic and awaits for his punishment in an eccentric cell. On waiting, Cincinnatus not knowing his executioner and when the execution will be held is introduced by the manager trying to be a friend of the protagonist. In this context, when studied from the dystopian point of view, the novel has a great numbers of dystopian characteristics. In this study, the term of dystopia and the characteristics of this  term in Invitation to a Beheading will be argued.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.256822
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/223202
ER  -