Invitation to a beheading.
by Vladimir Nabokov
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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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Invitation au supplice
March 4, 1980, Gallimard
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2070371727 9782070371723
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Invitation to a Beheading
January 30, 1965, Perigee Trade
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0399501150 9780399501159
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Translation of Priglashenie na kaznʹ (romanized form)
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A surreal story about a man who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the crime of "gnostical turpitude."
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