Faculty of Unnecessary Things
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Faculty of Unnecessary Things
29.99 €
Yuri Dombrovsky (1909-1978) wrote his main novel "The Faculty of Unnecessary Things" for more than ten years, with no hope of publication in the USSR. The book was first published in a Parisian publishing house in 1978, and the author even had time to hold it in his hands. Publication in his homeland took place much later.
"Faculty" completes a kind of dilogy, started by "Keeper of Antiquities", in them and the main character is the same - Zybin, a man devoted to culture and himself its integral part. This is a novel-parable about the traitor, victim and executioner, about the fact that in our country these concepts are closely and tragically intertwined. Zybin is arrested (anti-Soviet propaganda, escape abroad, theft of gold), but still remains a winner. Unbroken. Just like the author of the novel. Domestic and foreign critics put "The Faculty of Unnecessary Things" on a par with "The Master and Margarita" by M. Bulgakov and "Dr. Zhivago" by B. Pasternak. And you know what I remember now? Lessing wrote somewhere that the martyr is the most undramatic figure in the world. You can't write a tragedy about him. He has no actions, no hesitations, no worries - only patience. He is tormented, but he endures; he is tempted, but he prays. ...After the martyrs always come the executioners.
"Faculty" completes a kind of dilogy, started by "Keeper of Antiquities", in them and the main character is the same - Zybin, a man devoted to culture and himself its integral part. This is a novel-parable about the traitor, victim and executioner, about the fact that in our country these concepts are closely and tragically intertwined. Zybin is arrested (anti-Soviet propaganda, escape abroad, theft of gold), but still remains a winner. Unbroken. Just like the author of the novel. Domestic and foreign critics put "The Faculty of Unnecessary Things" on a par with "The Master and Margarita" by M. Bulgakov and "Dr. Zhivago" by B. Pasternak. And you know what I remember now? Lessing wrote somewhere that the martyr is the most undramatic figure in the world. You can't write a tragedy about him. He has no actions, no hesitations, no worries - only patience. He is tormented, but he endures; he is tempted, but he prays. ...After the martyrs always come the executioners.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Yuri Dombrovsky: prose