Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading
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- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780141185606
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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'.