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Invitation to a beheading
- Title
- Invitation to a beheading / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author.
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1959]
- ©1959
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Nabokov, Dmitri
- Description
- 223 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Priglashenie na kaznʹ. English
- Alternative Title
- Priglashenie na kaznʹ.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Note
- First edition in English.
- "Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada by Longmans, Green & Company, Toronto."
- Indexed In (note)
- Juliar, Michael. Vladimir Nabokov, a descriptive bibliography
- Source (note)
- Aquent
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Nabokov P754 1959
- LCCN
- 59011024
- OCLC
- 292275
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977, author, translator.
- Title
- Invitation to a beheading / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author.
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1959]
- Copyright Date
- ©1959
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- Juliar, Michael. Vladimir Nabokov, a descriptive bibliography, A16.2
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Nabokov, Dmitri, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Priglashenie na kaznʹ. English. Invitation to a beheading. New York : Putnam's Sons, [©1959] (OCoLC)576351754
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Nabokov P754 1959D-20 5209