A Hero of Our Time

ISBN-13: 9780810133518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str.

Mikhail Lermontov

Opis

Translated from the Russian by Elizabeth Cheresh AllenMikhail Lermontov s A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to typify Russian literature. Its "hero," Grigorii Pechorin, also established a character type that became known in Russian fiction as "the superfluous man" widely familiar from Dostoevsky s Notes from Underground. At once driven by pride and wracked by self-doubt, both shockingly self-revealing and blindly self-deceived, he flounders to affirm himself in a social world he despises yet yearns to dominate. Pechorin is a troubling and unforgettable character. And A Hero of Our Time, which has provoked much controversy, is a novel not only central to Russian literature but fundamental to the Western literary tradition of the antihero."