by Robert Littell · Éditions Baker Street · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782917559062
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«L'hirondelle avant l'orage: Le poète et le dictateur» is the historical novel by Robert Littell (Editions Baker Street, paperback, 332 pages, in French).
In 1934, under Stalinist terror, Osip Mandelstam composes an epigram against Stalin that circulates in secret. Alternating the voices of the poet, his wife Nadezhda, Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, the novel explores the mutual fascination between dictator and artist, and the price of raising one's voice: arrest, torture and exile.
Original title in English: «The Stalin Epigram»; the French translation is by Cécile Arnaud.
For readers of historical fiction about the Soviet Union and the relationship between the artist and power. Also for followers of Robert Littell.
Robert Littell is an American novelist and former journalist who resides in France. He specialises in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union.
