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Invitation to a Beheading, Paperback / softback Book

Invitation to a Beheading Paperback / softback

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

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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'.

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