# Invitation to a Beheading

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- Book: [Invitation to a Beheading](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/invitation-to-a-beheading) ([Invitation to a Beheading.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/invitation-to-a-beheading.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-531-2
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1989-09-19
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...