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Title	:	A Hero of Our Time
Author	:	Mikhail Lermontov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

Mikhail Lermontov

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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ForewordIntroductionAcknowledgementsSuggestions for Further ReadingMap--A Hero of Our TimeNotes

I started reading this book in ebook form because I was so eager to get to it, prompted by the references in the notes of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf which I'd just finished. So imagine the following scenario: I'm reading Lermontov's book on my kindle, I'm listening to Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain prompted by another Sokolov reference, and I've got a google map open on my iPad in order to follow the path Lermontov's narrator takes northwards from Tbilisi across the bare and

Main Character is a sad toxic bastard who sucks the life out any woman he seduces.5 stars for spot-on description of sad waste of space. And don't give me shit about a lost generation and blah blah blah. I don't want to hear about it.

And now Childe Harold was sore sick at heart,And from his fellow bacchanals would flee;'Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start,But pride congealed the drop within his e'e...- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto I, Stanza VI)Another life that vanished too soon. Mikhail Lermontov was only 26 years old when he was killed in a duel. Same fate as another Russian genius, Alexander Pushkin, to whom he dedicated his poem "Death of the Poet": And thus he died - for vengeance vainly

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,

The shade of Byron, or perhaps more accurately of the Byronic hero (that petulant and brooding vampiric pretty boy that has fascinated us since the days of the famous celebrity-poet), looms large, though in a decidedly ironic fashion, in Lermontovs _A Hero of Our Time_. The titular hero Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, seen both from the outside and from within, displays from every angle the nearly perfect vision of the tragic Byronic douche bag. From his ability to sway any woman with little

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