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46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Books of Some Substance
English - December 22, 2019 18:21 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB - ★★★★ - 61 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Philosophy book bulgakov bellow books classics fiction hesse hurston kawabata lewis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Drama! Comedy! Opacity! Turpitude! All are up for grabs in Vladimir Nabokov’s holiday classic, Invitation to a Beheading. Listen in as Nathan, David, and Nick try to figure out just what exactly is going on in Nabokov’s oft-overlooked gem that may or may not be about: personal exile, political exile, gnosticism, or the inability to get a good night’s sleep. Just don’t call it Kafka-esque (even though it’s definitely Kafka-esque).