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Invitation to a Beheading (The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection) ハードカバー – 2012/3/1

英語版 Vladimir Nabokov (著)
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Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures ... The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita ... But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'.
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He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language. (Anthony Burgess)

Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. (The Guardian)

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics (2012/3/1)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2012/3/1
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 256ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141196971
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141196978
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2 x 19.5 cm
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5つ星のうち5.0 A brilliant, sad book (with however a questionable ending)
2019年9月3日に英国でレビュー済み
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This is Nabokov's saddest book. There are plenty of sad and tragic people in his work at large - Luzhin, Smurov, Martin, Hermann, Fyodor, Sebastian, Pnin, Kinbote, Hugh - and of course poor Lo. But Cincinnatus, the hero of *Invitation to a Beheading*, has an endless pathos all his own. People in the other books fight back, or bluster along as best they can. But poor, innocent Cincinnatus, held in a cell on death row for a crime trumped up by the hideous regime under which he lives, is not, and never has been, a fighter or a blusterer. Good, quiet, meek, and terrified, Cincinnatus is duped, duped, and duped again by his horrible captors, who take delight in subjecting him to psychological torture in the days leading up to his date with the axe. It is, on Nabokov's part, a brilliant piece of invention - the wild, tacky, kitschy vulgarity of all his manifold punishers is superbly imagined, and beautifully set over against the simple goodness of a helpless creature all on his own. Read it for that. And then try to decide what to make of the ending. This is, as I say, Nabokov's saddest book. But it is also the book where his own thoughts of the afterlife have the biggest role to play. He is very coy, not to say evasive, on what he thought of 'the beyond'. In my view, bits of the issue flit in and out of the other books, never assuming anything like major importance (though some Nabokovians attach enormous significance to it). But in this book, about a man convicted of 'gnostical turpitude' (p 51, and look up 'gnostic' and gnosis' - they may be important) the issue is clearly present. But how? To what end? With what effect? With what success? I'm pretty sure I don't really know. Others are very sure they do.
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5つ星のうち5.0 Surrealist portrait that reveals the absurdities of human (moral, social) conventions
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100 stars! This is by far one of the most absurd, imaginative, and metaphorically insightful works of art I have ever encountered - it is what I would imagine a Dali painting to be if it were a novel. It is also brilliantly written.

Invitation to a Beheading is a phenomenological exploration (in the tradition of Husserl, but more resembling Gaston Bachelard's phenomenology), serving to snap us out of our familiarity and out of our forgetting of the nature of our reality by continually inserting the ridiculous into the narrative: a family who brings their furniture with them to jail for a brief visit of an inmate; a spider who inhabits a cell with the protagonist and who is fed and coddled; an execution ceremony which resembles a circus/variety-show act; chairs and furniture that move at will, "and never spend the night in the same spot twice"; and seemingly nonsensical meanderings such as the observation that "an insane man mistakes his visiting kin for galaxies, logarithms, low-haunched hyenas".

I wouldn't say I *enjoyed* this work - though the book was relatively short, it took me weeks to trudge through it; still, it quickly became one of my "favorites", and a work I would recommend to any of my literary friends above others in a heartbeat. I attempt to rate books not on my personal preference, but on whether they hold unique relevance, meaning, and display brilliant writing or insights into human nature. There is no question that, although, as some have complained, this work lacks a "plot" or "character development", it is nevertheless a surreal masterpiece that reveals the absurdity in our own (moral, social) conventions.

HIGHLY recommended, though you probably will not enjoy it if you are looking for a book with a "plot" and if you are easily frustrated by one in which not much seems to "happen". Invitation to a Beheading is more like a storied philosophy or work of abstract art than it is a novel.
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5つ星のうち3.0 Within and beyond
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Class apart, though disturbing at junctures owing to the works efforts portray the inner realities of mankind through symbolism
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5つ星のうち5.0 Breathtaking!
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This classic example of World Literature is amazing. How one can see his life so clearly, yet be on death row astounds me. Fantastic read.
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5つ星のうち4.0 Remember to keep death before your eyes daily
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Chapter 4 of the rule of St. Benedict tells the monks, "Remember to keep death before your eyes daily." What would it be like to be such a person? What would it be like to be around such a person? Cincinnatus is sentenced to death. The name harkens back to a noble figure. In this case he is sentenced to death because he makes everyone around him uncomfortable (there are worse reasons.) But he does not know the date of his death...and here is the dramatic tension of the story. I remember when my Dad died. The next morning I went into my bank and a teller I knew well smiled and asked how I was doing. She had NO clue. I have worked with many families dealing with imminent death and I know they don't want me to ask how they are doing unless they know they can answer honestly. Cincinnatus is surrounded by people going through the motions of day-to-day life and cannot appreciate why this man waiting for death doesn't appreciate THEIR struggles. Of course, they are waiting for death too; they just don't appreciate it. This is my 6th book by Nabokov and I have loved them all. And I certainly see similarities between this book and works by Kafka, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Sartre ("The Wall.") but I don't assume an influence
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