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by Vladimir Nabokov , Dmitri 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 ... more

     

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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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      • Media: Paperback Book, 223 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Vintage Books USA (Sep. 30th, 1989)
      • ISBN-10: 0679725318
      • ISBN-13: 9780679725312
      • Dimensions: 5.20 x 8.02 x 0.61 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 0.56 lbs
      • Categories: Literary Fiction and Literature Russian Former Soviet Union Literary Criticism

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