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Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov
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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 to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: February 16, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307787354
  • Release date: February 16, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307787354
  • File size: 448 KB
  • Release date: February 16, 2011

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subjects

Fantasy Fiction Literature

Languages

English

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.
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Fantasy Fiction Literature