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_aFIC NAB _2 |
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_aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich _d(, 1899-1977) |
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_aInvitation to a beheading _c/ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
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_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 1989, c1959 |
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_a223 p. _c; 21 cm |
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| 520 | _aIn 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. | ||
| 546 | _aEnglish | ||
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_aDeath row inmates _x-Fiction |
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