Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840) is one of the great classics of Russian nineteenth-century literature, is a novel of unique structure, based on a series of short storied held together by a Byronic hero, Pechorin, whose gifted but embittered nature typified the so-called superfluous men of the 1830's. The novel, however, raises issues of imperialism, fate, free will and the limits of self-knowledge. The present study draws together the now considerable body of secondary material on Lermontov's novel, and offers new insights in the light...
Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840) is one of the great classics of Russian nineteenth-century literature, is a novel of un...
