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The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge

By Yury Dombrovsky

The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge

By Yury Dombrovsky

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The Year of Terror 1937. Zybin an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. Soon he and his colleagues are caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator's attempts to set up a show trial to rival those taking place in Moscow.
Vivid courageous and defiant The Faculty of Useless Knowledge is the crowning achievement by the author of The Keeper of Antiquities and The Dark Lady and draws heavily on autobiographical experience. First published in Russian in 1978 it is a masterpiece of anti-totalitarian literature and stands alongside the works of Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov in illuminating the chaos absurdity and bureaucratic labyrinths of Soviet Russia.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
2013-02-11
Publication Date:
2013-02-11
Publisher:
Harvill Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1846556988
ISBN13:
9781846556982
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
898 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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