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Invitation to a Beheading

1989-09-19 Fiction
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Release : 1989-09-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Invitation to a Beheading by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book Invitation to a Beheading written by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 1989-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. 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.

Invitation to a Beheading

2012-03-01 Fiction
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Release : 2012-03-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Invitation to a Beheading by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book Invitation to a Beheading written by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 2012-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’.

Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading

1997 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1997
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 711/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading by : Julian W. Connolly

Download or read book Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading written by Julian W. Connolly. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unnamed dream country, Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. After spending his last days in jail, he simply wills his executioners out of existence.

Bend Sinister

1990-04-14 Fiction
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Release : 1990-04-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bend Sinister by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book Bend Sinister written by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 1990-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.

The Annotated Lolita

2000 Love stories
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Release : 2000
Genre : Love stories
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Book Rating : 040/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Annotated Lolita by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book The Annotated Lolita written by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated edition of Lolita, first published in 1970 with a revised edition in 1991. The novel which first established Nabokov's reputation with a large audience is a comic satire on sex and the American ways of life. It focuses on the love of a middle-aged European for an American nymphet.

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