A Hero of Our Time - (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Lermontov (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, <b>A Hero of Our Time</b> influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first published in 1840, <b>A Hero of Our Time</b> follows Pechorin as he embarks on an exciting adventure involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers. <p/>This edition includes a new introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, maps, and full explanatory notes.<p><br> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Natasha Randall's English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity. . . . (Nabokov's version, the best-known older translation, is a bit more demure than Randall's, less savage.) <br>-James Wood, <i>London Review of Books</i> <p/>[A] smart, spirited new translation. <br>-<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper. <br>-Neil LaBute, from the Foreword<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.
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