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. is condemned to death by beheading for gnostical turpitude, an imaginary crime that defies definition. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. Like Kafka’s The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. This New Directions edition, based on the text as Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker Prize winner John Banville. Published first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in 1932, this book appeared in Nabokov’s own English translation six years later. Amidst a Weimar era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others. He was rich, respectable, happy one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved was not loved and his life ended in disaster.’ Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark this, the author tells us, is the whole story except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling, original novel of folly and destruction.
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