Invitation to a Beheading
A man is condemned for gnostical turpitude, an opacity of soul in a country where everyone else is transparent, and spends his last days in a fortress where nobody will tell him the date. His jailer, his lawyer and his wife's enormous family behave like actors who keep forgetting which part they hold. Written in a fortnight, and the one of his Russian books Nabokov said he loved best.
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