Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov

(Sovremennye zapiski), a Russian émigré magazine. In 1938, the work was published in Paris, with an English translation following in 1959. The novel was translated into English by Nabokov's son, Dmitri Nabokov, under the author's supervision. The novel is often described as Kafkaesque, but Nabokov claimed that at the time he wrote the book, he was unfamiliar with German and "completely ignorant" of Franz Kafka's work. While Nabokov stated in an interview that of all his novels, he held the greatest affection for Lolita, it was Invitation to a Beheading that he held the greatest esteem

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