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.
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