'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.
Published in Russian in April 1840, A Hero of Our Time reached English in 1853, under the title 'Sketches of Life in the Caucasus, by a Russe.' Full of towering landscapes and local colour, it can be read as the travelogue of a poet and serving officer, but also as a portrait of the romantic as self-destructive anti-hero.
Vladimir Nabokov's translation of A Hero of Our Time was published in the United States in 1958, the same year as Lolita: world fame was about to overtake this committed Russian living in America.
| ISBN: | 9781529431216 |
| Publication date: | 24th October 2024 |
| Author: | Mikhail IUrevich Lermontov |
| Publisher: | riverrun an imprint of Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Riverrun Editions |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Fiction in translation General Fiction |