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Invitation to execution

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"Invitation to a Beheading" (1935) is the last in Nabokov's series of Berlin novels, a virtuoso intellectual bestseller whose title has become a catchphrase. In the bourgeois version of the totalitarian state, the most terrible crime is exceptionalism. Notions of honor, poetry, and love have been lost as a result of the long degradation of society, which has transformed people into a faceless mass. Paradoxically, the trial in the novel is not of Cincinnatus C., whose only guilt lies in the authenticity of his feelings and independence of views, but of society itself, trapped in its illusory well-being.
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