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.
| ISBN: | 9780679413271 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 1992 |
| Author: | Mikhail IUrevich Lermontov |
| Publisher: | Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 186 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Action Adventure Historical Fiction |