The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1860463436 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | Russian |
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Bulgakov, Dombrovsky, and Bitov No, the beautiful marriage of the philosophical with the literary characterized by the Russian novel in such giants as Dostoevsky and Gogol didn't disappear in the twentieth century, it was only repressed. This important book stands to finally take its place alongside other contemporary Soviet writers in a deep, thoug. jane k. johnson said Brilliant! : In the Tradition of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. Do not be put off by the length-5Brilliant! : In the Tradition of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn Do not be put off by the length-530 pages; it is as exciting from the first chapter to the last- a book that is hard to put down. This book contains actual events from the author's life and many of the people are real. Yet it is more; the battle between soviet expediency and humanistic values, the nature of justice, a. 0 pages; it is as exciting from the first chapter to the last- a book that is hard to put down. This book contains actual events from the author's life and many of the people are real. Yet it is more; the battle between soviet expediency and humanistic values, the nature of justice, a. Kafka as told by Dostoevsky Christopher Hartwell (chartwel@hiid.harvard.edu) An unbelievable work that makes up in prose what it lacks in originality. While the plot line is clearly delineated from the beginning, Dombrovsky's poetic writing and clever juxtaposition make this one of my top novels of all time. It's got the same futility of Kafka written in the style of The Brothers Karamazov. If
Set in the Year of Terror, 1937, in Kazakhstan, this novel concerns a group of archaeologists who find themseleves caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator's attempt to set up a show trial in Alma-Ata to rival those taking place in Moscow. Zybin, a young student, faces interrogation in a cell.
This first English translation of Yury Dombrovsky's massive, important novel, first published in Russian in 1978, reveals another master of the Stalinist era who can stand alongside Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov. Dombrovsky's tale of an exiled intellectual who, in the far province of Alma-Ata, becomes an archeologist and is arrested and interrogated by a Stalinist prosecutor (who will later himself become a target of the Great Terror), is largely autobiographical. . It is also vivid and courageous fiction, bringing to life a host of stunning characters including a young archeologist, an ex-priest obsessed with Christ's betrayal in the Gospels, and an eccentric street