Invitation to a Beheading by: Vladimir Nabokov / 1959 / Fiction / Hardcover / Good Condition
Putnam 1st US edition 1959. No dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover. See photos. Invitation to a Beheading is a surreal, dystopian novel by Vladimir Nabokov about Cincinnatus C., a man condemned to death for "gnostical turpitude" in a bizarre, totalitarian world where he is the only one who perceives reality as it truly is. He spends his final days in an absurd prison, visited by grotesque characters, as he writes in his diary, ultimately realizing he can will his executioners and their world out of existence, escaping to a more genuine reality. Written in Russian and later translated by Nabokov and his son Dmitri, the novel is a critique of totalitarianism and explores themes of individuality, reality, and existentialism. A1010
Invitation to a Beheading by: Vladimir Nabokov / 1959 / Fiction / Hardcover / Good Condition
Putnam 1st US edition 1959. No dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover. See photos. Invitation to a Beheading is a surreal, dystopian novel by Vladimir Nabokov about Cincinnatus C., a man condemned to death for "gnostical turpitude" in a bizarre, totalitarian world where he is the only one who perceives reality as it truly is. He spends his final days in an absurd prison, visited by grotesque characters, as he writes in his diary, ultimately realizing he can will his executioners and their world out of existence, escaping to a more genuine reality. Written in Russian and later translated by Nabokov and his son Dmitri, the novel is a critique of totalitarianism and explores themes of individuality, reality, and existentialism. A1010
