Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Vintage Books USA
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780679725312
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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.