Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage International)
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Publication Date: September 19th, 1989
Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9780679725312
Pages:
240
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Description
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.
Praise for Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage International)
"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike
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