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Invitation to a beheading, Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author

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Invitation to a beheading, Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Invitation to a beheading

Oclc number

19971258

Responsibility statement

Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author

Series statement

Vintage international

Summary

"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"--Page 4 of cover

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