On Tacitus

Contrary to expectation, I smoked a cigar, listened to much Fado music and completed The Faculty of Useless Knowledge. The novel is unique to my experience with Soviet literature in that majoirty of the novel is concerned with the technicians in the domestication of Terror. It is their all-too-human judgements which maintain the motion of the security organs. It is a dense book, one evidently of a highly personal nature for Dombrovsky. The momentary images from the Kolyma are worth the effort.
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