| Summary: | 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.
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