Jacob's review
Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
Jacob's review
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Jacob's review
I started listening to Reading Lolita In Tehran on CD -- how lame is it when you can't even finish a book-on-tape?! -- and in the first chapter (which is as far as I got), she mentions this book. I forget what she says about it, but it intrigued me enough to go on a quest to find a copy -- you wouldn't believe how hard it was to find!
Well, I've started reading it, and it's quite odd. I'm having to learn how to understand it as I'm reading. And it has a very unusual style in the way it describes things, uses metaphors. I think I like it. (I suspect some understanding problems might stem from reading it much later than it was written and in translation. But I also suspect that it's part of the style.) I've never read anything else by Nabokov, so I can't compare.
Well, I've started reading it, and it's quite odd. I'm having to learn how to understand it as I'm reading. And it has a very unusual style in the way it describes things, uses metaphors. I think I like it. (I suspect some understanding problems might stem from reading it much later than it was written and in translation. But I also suspect that it's part of the style.) I've never read anything else by Nabokov, so I can't compare.
