Bounded operators with no non-trivial closed invariant subspace have been constructed by P. Enflo [6]. In fact, there exist bounded operators on the space 1 with no non-trivial closed invariant subset [12]. It is still unknown, however, if such operators exist on reflexive Banach spaces, or on the separable Hilbert space. The main result of this note (Theorem 1) asserts that the existence of an...