Invitation to a Beheading Paperback - 1989
by Vladimir Nabokov
In an unnamed dream country, Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. After spending his last days in jail, he simply wills his executioners out of existence.
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Like 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.
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- Title Invitation to a Beheading
- Author Vladimir Nabokov
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 223
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 1989-09-19
- ISBN 9780679725312 / 0679725318
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Russian fiction - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040148
- Dewey Decimal Code 891.734
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