Paperback. Orange cover with black title.

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Nabokov’s political fiction — Nabokov’s anti-totalitarian fantasy, “an allegory reminiscent of Kafka’s The Trial” (Terras), written in 1934 with a first draft completed “in one fortnight of wonderful excitement and sustained inspiration” (Nabokov himself, quoted by Juliar). Invitation to a Beheading belongs to nine early Nabokov’s novels which were published under his pen name V. Sirin. Written during Nabokov’s time in Berlin and when Hitler had just arrived to power, the novel details the final twenty days of Cincinnatus C., a citizen of a fictitious country, who is imprisoned and sentenced to death for being unable to blend in and become part of the world around him.