Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

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Book name:	Invitation to a Beheading (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	Vladimir Nabokov
Pages:	223 pages
ISBN13:	0679725318
ISBN:	0679725318
Language:	English
Publication data:	Sept. 19, 1989, 7 a.m.

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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 final 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 prison cell.

About the author

Vladimir Nabokov

11 books

Russian: Владимир Набоков .

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery, and had a big interest in chess problems.

Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, and is at any rate his most widely known one, exhibiting the love of in… Read more