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Invitation to a Beheading, Paperback by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Nabo...

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ISBN
9780679725312
Publication Year
1989
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Invitation to a Beheading
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Dystopian, Absurdist, Literary

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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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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679725318
ISBN-13
9780679725312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Publication Year
1989
Topic
Dystopian, Absurdist, Literary
Book Title
Invitation to a Beheading
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.6in
Item Length
8in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Width
5.1in

Additional Product Features

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Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
891.7342
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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  • Writing style good, but storyline drags. Great ending.

    I was really excited about getting Invitation to a Beheading, because I had heard great things about it. I was thoroughly dissapointed though. It was incredibly difficult to track down a copy and hardly worth the effort. While the descriptive writing adeptly paints a picture of the setting, the story line is non-existant. It drags on for twenty chapters of nonsense, trying to leave you placated by an ironic and perfect ending. Frustrating. The voice of the book is long, flowing, and sometimes gets the meaning lost in the words, so you have to read it several times to get the idea. Unless you are a hardcore Nabokov/ Kaufka reader, it's not worth your time.