Author: Mikhail Lermontov

Price: $16.08

Category:Humor
Publication Date:1992-06-30T00:00:01Z
Pages:224
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0679413278
ISBN:13:9780679413271
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 of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible. This edition includes a Translator’s Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.