Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov 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…
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Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
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. Nabokov described the book as \'a violin in a void. 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.
Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures... The worldling will deem it a trick. 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\'.