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Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov Sylvia Townsend Warner plus a little whimsy thrownInvitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov ISBN 9780679725312 223 page paperback from Vintage Books *** 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 last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by