Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov Paperback Book

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: Sep 1989

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 223

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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

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