01246cam a2200289 4500 1163591676 TxAuBib 20091007120000.0 081202s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008052277 9781416598640 1416598642 TxAuBib Littell, Robert, 1935- The Stalin epigram : a novel / Robert Littell. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. xiv, 366 p. ; 25 cm. A tale inspired by the life of twentieth-century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam recounts his criticism of the Stalin regime, the verbal distribution of his famous "Stalin Epigram" that led to his arrest, and his exile and death in a Siberian transit camp. 20091007. Mandel'shtam, Osip 1891-1938 Fiction. Poets, Russian 20th century Fiction. Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936 Fiction. Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953 Fiction. Soviet Union Intellectual life 1917-1970 Fiction. Biographical fiction. TXKIP