A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov, Mikhail

A Hero of Our Time

A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian literature The first major Russian novel, A...
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Author: Mikhail Lermontov
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Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov, Mikhail

A Hero of Our Time

¥3,892

A Hero of Our Time

¥3,892
Author: Mikhail Lermontov
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian literature

The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated 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. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov's own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.

Author: Mikhail Lermontov
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.08w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780143105633
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
London Review of Books 02/11/2010 pg. 19

About the Author
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) made several journeys to the Caucasus before entering St, Petersburg Guards' school, where he began writing poetry and autobiographical dramas in prose. Influenced by Byron, he is renowned as Russia's one true Romantic poet. Lermontov greatly influenced Dostoyevsky and Blok; while Tolstoy and Chekhov regarded his prose as a model.

Natasha Randall (translator/introducer) has published translations of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (shortlisted for the 2008 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) and Osip Mandelstam's poetry as well as the work of contemporary writers Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Alexander Skidan, and Olga Zondberg. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, she lives in London.

Neil LaBute (foreword) is a film director, screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for his play and film In the Company of Men and his films Possession, The Shape of Things, and The Wicker Man.

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