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A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
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A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
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Loot Price R249
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A masterpiece of Russian prose, Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our
Time is translated with an introduction and notes by Natasha
Randall, and a foreword by Neil LaBute, author of reasons to be
pretty, in Penguin Modern Classics. The first major Russian novel,
A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled on publication. Its
Byronic hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and
magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and
indifferent to his many sexual conquests. In five linked episodes,
Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing
the sickness of his times. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures
in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals,
and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Leo Tolstoy,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov, holding up a mirror not only
to Lermontov's time but also to our own. Mikhail Lermontov
(1814-41) was a Russian Romantic writer and poet. As a young man
Lermontov was an officer in the guards, and was sent to fight in
the Caucasus after insulting the Tsar. His dramatic life ended
after being shot down in a duel. Ifyou enjoyed A Hero of Our Time,
you might like Andrei Bely's Petersburg, also available in Penguin
Clasics. '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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