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Invitation to a Beheading (Reprint Edition) by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov (Translator), Dmitri Navokov Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-10: 0-679-72531-8 / 0679725318 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72531-2 / 9780679725312 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 |