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Invitation to an Execution
2024 Digital Illustartion
The novel takes place in a prison and chronicles the final twenty days of Cincinnatus C., who has been convicted of an absurd crime. He knows he will be executed but is unaware of the exact date, and this state of uncertainty is unbearable, making each moment in prison feel like an eternity. Everything surrounding him becomes an exaggerated performance. He sarcastically views the prison director as dim-witted, his cellmate as "made of candy, a beardless little fat man, all in stripes—striped socks and brand-new morocco slippers," and the sentencing judge as a clown. This ironic, calm state is his method of resisting fear.