Invitation to a Beheading

Nabokov, Vladimir

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. 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’. 

Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780141185606
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): UK3