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{ Sept 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 223 pages Published 1938 Copyright by Vladimir Nabokov (1959) First Vintage International Edition (1989) 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 final 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 prison cell. Cincinnatus, unable to fit into the world around him, has been reported to the authorities and sentenced to death for his strange, unrecognizable nature. Exploring the prison cell as he counts down his final days, Cincinnatus cannot even find out when the moment of his execution will occur, and is troubled by the lack of control a condemned man has over his own life. Witty, satirical and nightmarish, Invitation to a Beheading create

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Author

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; Dmitri Nabokov

Publisher

Vintage International

Published

1937

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307787354

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.4 / 5 (298 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14