The Stalin Epigram
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now in paperback-legendary and masterful spy novelist Robert Littell's extraordinary historical novel, The STALIN EPIGRAM, chronicles the most famous work of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam who defied Stalin's regime, his subsequent exile, and finally his mysterious death in 1938.
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Now in paperback-legendary and masterful spy novelist Robert Littell's extraordinary historical novel, The STALIN EPIGRAM, chronicles the most famous work of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam who defied Stalin's regime, his subsequent exile, and finally his mysterious death in 1938.
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Based on a true historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional account of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century-and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet's defiance of the Kremlin dictator and the Bolshevik regime- particularly his outspoken criticism of Stalin's collectivization rampage that drove millions of Russian peasants to starvation-reached its climax in 1934 when Mandelstam, putting his life on the line, composed a searing indictment of Stalin in a sixteen-line epigram and secretly recited it to a handful of friends and fellow artists. Would Stalin and his merciless state security apparatus get wind of this brazenly insulting poem? Would the poet's body and spirit be crushed under the weight of the state if they did?
Narrated in turn by Mandelstam himself, his devoted wife, his great friends Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, and vivid fictional characters, The Stalin Epigram is a page-turning tale of courage and the human spirit and illuminates the agonizing choices Russian intellectuals faced during the Stalinist terror. In it, legendary author Robert Littell delivers his most riveting suspense story and masterfully written novel to date.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Littell
Bestselling author Robert Littell has been ranked amongst John Le Carre and Graham Greene for his masterful spy fiction. A Newsweek journalist in a previous incarnation, Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A.J.Lewinter. Among his numerous critically acclaimed novels are The October Circle, Mother Russia, The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Revolutionist, The Once and Future Spy, An Agent in Place, The Visiting Professor, the New York Times bestselling The Company (adapted for a TNT mini-series), and Legends (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Best Thriller of 2005) and For the Future of Israel, a book of conversations with Shimon Peres. Littell is an American who makes his home in France.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Littell
- 2010, 384 Seiten, Maße: 14,2 x 21,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK
- ISBN-10: 1416598650
- ISBN-13: 9781416598657
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Robert Littell has written what may be his finest novel...a timeless story of courage and truth...a brilliant work, always readable, sometimes funny and often heartbreaking...The Stalin Epigram should not be missed." -Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post
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