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A Hero of Our Time

By Mikhail Lermontov
Translated by Paul Foote

By Mikhail Lermontov
Translated by Paul Foote

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Oct 01, 2001 | ISBN 9780140447958

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
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About A Hero of Our Time

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.


 

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Product Details

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Paperback | $15.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Oct 01, 2001 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780140447958
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Praise

“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

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