Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1965 • Capricorn Books

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov 

FIRST TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION [1965] CAPRICORN BOOKS

A Capricorn Giant • 6th Impression / 1965

Antique trade paperback in good condition. 

Cover shows creasing up top on front; discoloration / some erosion along edges. 

Pages are bright, clean and read good as new.  A few spots to text block. Great reading copy.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. 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 final 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 prison cell.