Modern Library Classics: A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
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Modern Library Classics: A Hero of Our Time (Paperback)
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from HadriantheBlind
This is not really a novel, but instead a collection of short stories about a central character - the anti-hero Pechorin, and his adventures in the mountainous frontiers of the Caucasus. It's somewhere between a psychological realism in the diary entries of our brooding, bored, and manipulative P...
from varwenea
It's almost painful to read this book. Not because the book is bad but because I want to strangle Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, the main character in this book, who is very simply, not a hero - self-centered, arrogant in both an aware and unaware sense, cynical, calculatedly maniacal, and with ...
from hazzabamboo
From the Preface: "The Hero of our Time is certainly a portrait, but not of a single person. It is a portrait of the vices of our whole generation in their ultimate development... people have been fed on sweets too long and it has ruined their digestion. Bitter medicines and harsh truths are need...
from dags
An excellent, and somewhat rare book in that other 19th century literature usually used females as their protagonists, in the case of self-defeating behaviour and narcissism. The lead (male) character moves through life with a kind of fascination as to just how far he can push situations and mani...
from timjones
Anton Chekhov considered Mikhail Lermontov's Taman, one of the five closely linked stories which make up this volume, the model short story. Taman is the highlight of the novel for me, but the whole thing is a remarkable achievement. Lermontov's Pechorin, though modeled on Pushkin's Onegin, is on...
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