The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	The Harvill Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2013
Authors:	Yury Dombrovsky
Translators:	Alan Myers
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	512
ISBN-13:	978-1-84655-698-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Russian
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-84655-698-8
Barcode:	9781846556982

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