Invitation to execution. Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich

“Invitation to execution” (1935) - the last among the Berlin novels of Nabokov, a virtuoso intellectual bestseller, whose name became winged.

In the philistine variety of a totalitarian state, the most terrible crime is exclusivity. The ideas of honor, poetry, love were lost as a result of a long degradation of society, which turned people into a faceless audience. In a paradoxically, the court in the novel does not perform over Cincinnate C., whose entire guilt consists in the authenticity of the feelings and independence of the views, but over the society itself, which was captured by its illusory well -being.