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Dombrovsky had begun publis. Yury Osipovich Dombrovsky (Russian: Ю́рий О́сипович Домбро́вский) ( - ) was a Russian writer who spent nearly eighteen years in Soviet prison camps and exile. Dombrovsky was the son of Jewish lawyer Joseph Hedal Dombrovsky and Russian mother. Yury fell foul of the authorities as early as , for his part in the student suicide case /5. The Faculty of Useless Knowledge is the crowning achievement by the author of The Keeper of Antiquities and The Dark Lady, and it will take its place among the masterworks of anti-totalitarian literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title/5(9). The Faculty of Useless Knowledge. 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/5(31).

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The Faculty of Useless Knowledge. Hardcover – October 1, by Iurii Osipovich Dombrovskii (Author), Yury Dombrovsky (Author), Alan Myers (Translator) 0 more. out of 5 stars. 9 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Try again. The Faculty of Useless Knowledge: Author: Yury Dombrovsky: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng) Length: pages: Original in: Russian: Availability: The Faculty of Useless Knowledge - US. The Faculty of Useless Knowledge - UK. Die Fakultät unnützer Dinge - Deutschland. The "faculty" of the title is that of law, and the perversion of law and justice inherent in Stalin's terror is viewed from all angles. The Faculty of Useless Knowledge is a philosophical novel which continually invokes history — Jesus, Tacitus and the Roman emperors, the French Revolution, and Tsarist Russia. And it has other digressions: a description of the Alma Ata melon market, for example, and a piece on the artist Kalmykov.