Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Abstract Absurdist Dystopia metaphysical Russian

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 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.

Audio Release Date:
November 29 2010

6 hrs and 10 mins