Invitation To A Beheading
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Invitation To A Beheading. Title: Invitation To A Beheading. Number of Pages: 223. Publication Date: 1989-09-19. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Invitation To A Beheading ISBN13: 9780679725312 ISBN10: 0679725318 Author: Nabokov, Vladimir (Author) Description: 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 In An Unnamed Dream Country, Cincinnatus C Is Condemned To Death By Beheading For Gnostical Turpitude, An Imaginary Crime That Defies Definition After Spending His Last Days In Jail, He Simply Wills His Executioners Out Of Existence Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: 1989-09-19 Dimensions: 0.7'' H x 8'' L x 5.1'' W Number of Pages: 223 Language: English
