A Hero of Our Time Contributor(s): Lermontov, Mikhail (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810133512 ISBN-13: 9780810133518 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: 891.733 |
LCCN: 2016014884 |
Series: Northwestern World Classics |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 8.1" (0.40 lbs) 184 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Translated from the Russian by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to typify Russian literature. Its hero, Grigorii Pechorin, also established a character type that became known in Russian fiction as the superfluous man--widely familiar from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. At once driven by pride and wracked by self-doubt, both shockingly self-revealing and blindly self-deceived, he flounders to affirm himself in a social world he despises yet yearns to dominate. Pechorin is a troubling and unforgettable character. And A Hero of Our Time, which has provoked much controversy, is a novel not only central to Russian literature but fundamental to the Western literary tradition of the antihero. |