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Invitation to a Beheading

By Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading Contemporary literature

Invitation to a Beheading

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
223
Release Date:
1989-09-19
Publication Date:
1989-09-19
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679725318
ISBN13:
9780679725312
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
210 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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