Invitation to a beheading
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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" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Nabokov, V. V. (19891959). Invitation to a beheading. 1st Vintage international ed. New York, Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. 19891959. Invitation to a Beheading. New York, Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977, Invitation to a Beheading. New York, Vintage Books, 19891959.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Invitation to a Beheading. 1st Vintage international ed. New York, Vintage Books, 19891959.
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