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Name: Invitation to a Beheading

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Year: 1935
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Popularity: 3.8
Genres/categories: Classic, Fantasy
Culture: Russia

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ISBN:
9789660301177
9660301170

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.


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