A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

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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 involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers.

This edition includes a new introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, maps, and full explanatory notes.

Book Details

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2001
Pages: 208
Language: English
Edition: Rev - undefined
Dimensions: 7.76in - 5.12in - 0.51in - 0.36lb
EAN: 9780140447958
Recommended age: 18-UP
Categories: • Classics• Russian & Soviet• Literary

About the Author

Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.

Praise for this book

"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 Review of Books

"[A] smart, spirited new translation."
-The Boston Globe

"One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper."
-Neil LaBute, from the Foreword