Invitation to a Beheading
Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures ... The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita ... But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'.
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 192
- Series
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-118560-6
- EAN
- 9780141185606
- Release date
- 2001
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