| Description |
223 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
First edition in English. |
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"Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada by Longmans, Green & Company, Toronto." |
| Indexed In: |
Juliar, Michael. Vladimir Nabokov, a descriptive bibliography, A16.2 |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Death row inmates -- Fiction.
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Death row inmates. (OCoLC)fst00888720
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| Genre/Form |
Russian fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Title |
Priglashenie na kaznʹ. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Priglashenie na kaznʹ. English. Invitation to a beheading. New York : Putnam's Sons, [©1959] (OCoLC)576351754 |
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