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Title	:	A Hero of Our Time
Author	:	Mikhail Lermontov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 185 pages
Published	:	August 30th 1966 by Penguin Classics (first published 1840)
Categories	:	Classics. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature

A Hero of Our Time Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

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In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.

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Original Title:	Герой нашего времени
ISBN:	014044176X (ISBN13: 9780140441765)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Pechorin
Setting:	Caucasus

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A Hero of Our Time, part swashbuckler, part travelogue, which first appeared in 1839, cleary had an influence over another certain famous Russian writer who sported a great big long grey beard. Infact this could quite easily have been written by Tolstoy himself. Opening in a vast landscape, the narrator is travelling through the Caucasus, he explains that he is not a novelist, but a travel writer, making notes. Think a sort of Paul Theroux type. The mountainous region were supposedly fabled,

For a brief period after Pushkins death, Lermontov was Russias noted writer. He was the Byron of his time, with his romanticized ideals, novel without plot featuring his noted antihero. Ive returned lately to Nabokov and am taking his advice on what to read (oddly, his favourites re-affirm the suggestions friends have lately given me).Nabokov writes:It would seem that all the veneration elderly critics have for A Hero is rather a glorified recollection of youthful readings in the twilight, and



This novel... Wow. Hailed as a seminal influence on the works of subsequent Russian authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, A Hero Of Our Time effortlessly straddles both Romanticism and Realism, a style still in its nascence during Lermontov's own time. The book revolves around Pechorin, the hero the title refers to, a Russian soldier posted to the Caucasus, who embodies the spirit of the Byronic hero, in its Russian form : The superfluous man - Aristocratic, brooding, licentious,

I sing whatever comes into my head. It'll be heard by who it's meant for, and who isn't meant to hear won't understand. Free will is the ability to choose...No! I would like to believe so. But there are countless limitations and restrictions which make me wonder why we have been granted with it, if we are going to be judged and chastised for our choices. This is such an argument of a man, Pechorin, who is often alienated for his nullifying philosophical and vilifying romantic views.There is

The story of a mans soul, even the pettiest of souls, is only slightly less intriguing and edifying than the history of an entire people, especially when it is a product of the observations of a ripe mind about itself, and when it is written without the vain desire to excite sympathy or astonishment. Driven by an early infatuation with Romanticism, tempered by subsequent disillusions, Mikhail Lermontov constructed his only novel around the troubled personality of a young Russian officer, exiled

This is one of those perfect, pristine novels that defies criticism because it's really like nothing else you might ever read. It is often heralded as the forebear of the psychological novel, like Dosty or others, but it is something more than that. What that is, I can't rightly say which, to me, indicates both the triumph and genius of the novel as well as highlighting the insufficiencies of stupid book reviews.It's strange, too, because the work is a patchwork of events from the life of the