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Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov

June 2013

Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading contains all the magical intensity of a work created in two short weeks of sustained inspiration.

Review coming soon.

Book Details

We Read This Book:

June 2013

Date Written:

1934.

Setting:

A small prison cell in the tower of a castle, and its surroundings.

Protagonist:

Cincinnatus - a jailed man awaiting execution.

Tradition:

Novelistic Fiction.

Themes:

Illusion, Bureaucracy,
Artistic Creation,
Prison, Death.