Invitation to a Beheading

Invitation to a Beheading
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780679725312
ISBN-13 : 0679725318
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Book Synopsis Invitation to a Beheading by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book Invitation to a Beheading written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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