Abstract
Among his many novels Vladimir Nabokov singled out Priglashenie na kazn' (Invitation to a Beheading) as one that he held the greatest esteem.' He also remarked that contrast to his usual snail-paced rate of composition, original draft of Priglashenie was written in one fortnight of wonderful excitement and sustained inspiration. It is perhaps due to temporal intensity of its composition that Priglashenie is most compact, most densely written of his works, showing a compression of stylistic virtuosity and theme that might have been etiolated by a more leisurely mode of writing. Whatever reason, Priglashenie na kazn' is clearly most structurally stark and artifice-saturated of Nabokov's works.
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