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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.

Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates.

Eurasien, Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts: Die Welt ist nach verschiedenen Religionskriegen, Revolutionen und Aufständen in weitgehend voneinander isolierte Kleinstaaten zerfallen, in denen unterschiedlichste politische Machtstrukturen herrschen. Es gibt u.a. das kommunistisch-orthodoxe Moskowien, eine Sowjetische Sozialistische Stalinrepublik und ein feudalistisches Neukölln mit Konrad von Kreuzberg an der Spitze, der die Salafisten zurückgeschlagen hat.