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Invitation to a Beheading written by Vladimir Nabokov performed by Stefan Rudnicki on CD (Unabridged)

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Invitation to a Beheading written by Vladimir Nabokov performed by Stefan Rudnicki on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781441873101
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  370 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator 1:  Stefan Rudnicki

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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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