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Invitation to a Beheading

Invitation to a Beheading

Nabokov, Vladimir

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Literary CriticismGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0679725318
ISBN13: 9780679725312
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 19 1989
Pages: 223
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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