Invitation to a beheading
by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
"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 w…
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- Full title :Invitation to a beheading / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author.
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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"--
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- Publication Date:1989.
- Edition:First Vintage international edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1989.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307787354, 0307787354
- oclc:ocn774977895
- LC Classification:PG3476.N3
- Dewey Decimal:891.73/42
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