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Original Title:	Герой нашего времени
ISBN:	014044176X (ISBN13: 9780140441765)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Pechorin
Setting:	Caucasus

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 45339 Users | 1415 Reviews

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Title	:	A Hero of Our Time
Author	:	Mikhail Lermontov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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.

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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

I was ready to love the whole worldnone understood me: and I learned to hate. My colourless youth was spent in a struggle with myself and with the world. Fearing mockery, I buried my best feelings at the bottom of my heart: there they died. I spoke the truthI was not believed: I began to deceive.What do we have here? A malcontent. A series of broken hearts. A duel. A game of Russian Roulette (apparently the first place a reference to this game appears). A question of fate versus freedom. A

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I 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

"A hero of our time" is Russian classics, written by Mikhail Lermontov. He was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter. His prose founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel. The reason I chose this book is that the main character has a lot of similarities with the author. They both were talented, noble, served in military, had sharp wit, enjoyed harsh humor, the story in the book has some similarities to the life of the author. It's a strange type of diary. Nature, customs,

Main Character is a sad toxic bastard who sucks the life out any woman he seduces.5 stars for spot-on description of sad waste of space. And don't give me shit about a lost generation and blah blah blah. I don't want to hear about it.

"Some were dreadfully insulted, and quite seriously, to have held up as a model such an immoral character as A Hero of Our Time; others shrewdly noticed that the author had portrayed himself and his acquaintances. A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of an individual; it is the aggregate of the vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression."These words from author's preface were quoted by Camus in the begining of 'The Fall'. To be honest, in Camus' Stranger