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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics)
by: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokovritten 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’
GHS 46.00
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’.
ISBN: 9780141185606
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: April 26, 2001
Page Count: 192 pages
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