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Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading

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.
ISBN: 9780141185606
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Page: 192
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2008
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 3 750 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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'.

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