Mikhail Lermontov
Paperback | Pages: 185 pages Rating: 4.11 | 45339 Users | 1415 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Герой нашего времени |
| ISBN: | 014044176X (ISBN13: 9780140441765) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Pechorin |
| Setting: | Caucasus |
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In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.Details Out Of Books A Hero of Our Time
| Title | : | A Hero of Our Time |
| Author | : | Mikhail Lermontov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 185 pages |
| Published | : | August 30th 1966 by Penguin Classics (first published 1840) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature |
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The shade of Byron, or perhaps more accurately of the Byronic hero (that petulant and brooding vampiric pretty boy that has fascinated us since the days of the famous celebrity-poet), looms large, though in a decidedly ironic fashion, in Lermontovs _A Hero of Our Time_. The titular hero Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, seen both from the outside and from within, displays from every angle the nearly perfect vision of the tragic Byronic douche bag. From his ability to sway any woman with littleI started reading this book in ebook form because I was so eager to get to it, prompted by the references in the notes of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf which I'd just finished. So imagine the following scenario: I'm reading Lermontov's book on my kindle, I'm listening to Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain prompted by another Sokolov reference, and I've got a google map open on my iPad in order to follow the path Lermontov's narrator takes northwards from Tbilisi across the bare and
This is one of those perfect, pristine novels that defies criticism because it's really like nothing else you might ever read. It is often heralded as the forebear of the psychological novel, like Dosty or others, but it is something more than that. What that is, I can't rightly say which, to me, indicates both the triumph and genius of the novel as well as highlighting the insufficiencies of stupid book reviews.It's strange, too, because the work is a patchwork of events from the life of the
I had always thought that my first russian read would be something by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, or Chekhov, but as things are ought to do I instead got to read this book which was written in 1840 and is supposed to be the first major Russian novel which actually influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, or Chekhov, so all's fine, Thanks @Vishnu bro for providing me a Gutenberg ebook for this book. Coming to the book it's not a single story but 5 short stories on a single individual twenty-five-year-old
This is an important Russian classic novel by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) said to be among the influences of Fyodor Doesteovsky (1821-1881) and Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Prior to this book, I thought that Doeteovsky and Tolstoy were the oldest Russian writers. You see, whenever I look at their pictures especially those taken during their twilight years, i.e., with those white beard and wrinkly faces, my brain could not think that they also had their influences in terms of writing style. I
This is one of those perfect, pristine novels that defies criticism because it's really like nothing else you might ever read. It is often heralded as the forebear of the psychological novel, like Dosty or others, but it is something more than that. What that is, I can't rightly say which, to me, indicates both the triumph and genius of the novel as well as highlighting the insufficiencies of stupid book reviews.It's strange, too, because the work is a patchwork of events from the life of the
And how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction! . . . I prefer to doubt everything. Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself. Now, the slave I could not be; and to be the master would be a wearisome trouble, because, at the same time, deception would be required. After all this, is life worth the trouble? And yet we live -- out of curiosity! We expect something new. . . How
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