Mihail Jur'evich Lermontov (1814 -1841) - odin iz samyh znachitel'nyh pojetov russkoj literatury HIH veka. Sochetanie prostoty i vozvyshennosti, estestvennosti i original'nosti otlichaet ruku mastera, a ego umenie ob#ektivno pokazyvat' haraktery geroev, raskryvaja odnogo personazha cherez vosprijatie drugim, i po sej den' voshishhaet i chitatelej i kritikov. Znamenityj roman Geroj nashego vremeni rasskazyvaet ob udivitel'noj sud'be lishnego svetskogo cheloveka, talantlivogo, no obrechennogo ne byt' schastlivym v silu samih obstojatel'stv svoego rozhdenija, vospitanija, prinadlezhnosti...
Mihail Jur'evich Lermontov (1814 -1841) - odin iz samyh znachitel'nyh pojetov russkoj literatury HIH veka. Sochetanie prostoty i vozvyshennosti, estes...
Translated from the Russian by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Mikhail 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...
Translated from the Russian by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Mikhail Lermontov s A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Publ...
