This is a study of the Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov that attempts to integrate in-depth interpretations of all his major texts. It considers his narrative poems, The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov (1837), The Demon (1839), and The Novice (1839); a play, The Masquerade (1835); and the novel A Hero of Our Time (1840) from the perspective of one of the central concerns of Romanticism in general and of Lermontov in particular: heroism and individualism.
This is a study of the Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov that attempts to integrate in-depth interpretations of all his major texts. It considers his n...