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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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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
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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 1959
D-20 5209
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