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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Vintage internationalPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1989Edition: 1st Vintage international edDescription: 223 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0679725318
  • 9780679725312
Uniform titles:
  • Priglashenie na kazn. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PG3476.N3 P7313 1989
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"-- Back cover.
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"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"-- Back cover.

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