{"product_id":"9781846556982-the-faculty-of-useless-knowledge","title":"The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivid, courageous and defiant,\u003ci\u003e The Faculty of Useless Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is the crowning achievement by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper of Antiquities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Lady\u003c\/i\u003e and draws heavily on autobiographical experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivid, courageous and defiant,\u003ci\u003e The Faculty of Useless Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is the crowning achievement by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper of Antiquities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Lady\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57595133264246,"sku":"9781846556982","price":17.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32394469.jpg?v=1775054509","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781846556982-the-faculty-of-useless-knowledge","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}