Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov with Dmitri Nabokov (Translator)

223 pages first pub 1938 (editions) user-added

fiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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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 d...

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