| #23953 in Books | Mikhail Lermontov | 2001-10-01 | 2001-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.77 x.46 x5.10l,.36 | File Name: 0140447954 | 208 pages | A Hero of Our Time Penguin Classics
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Attainment of Information As Important as Information Itself|By Cabin Dweller|To further appreciate the point of view of 19th century Russians and their sharp divisions of class, if not race and definitely also of religion, read this work by Mikhail Lermontov. As with "Tales from the Underground" and Pushkin and Tolstoy and "Fathers and Sons," etc., we see enduring themes of m||"Natasha Randall's English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity. . . . (Nabokov's version, the best-known older translation, is a bit more demure than Randall's, less savage.)" |-James Wood, London of Books
The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first published in 1840, A Hero of Our Time follows Pechorin as he embarks on an exciting adventure i...
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