Lermontov, MiKhail IUrevich, 1814-1841

A hero of our time / Mikhail Lermontov ; translated from the Russian by Vladimir and Dmitri Nabokov - New York : A.A. Knopf , 1992. - xxix, 186 p. ; 22 cm, - Everyman's library .

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In its adventurous happenings its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues A Hero of Our Timelooks 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.

9780679413271

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Caucasus----Fiction
Russia---Social life and customs---1533-1917----Fiction
Russia----Military history----1801-1917----Fiction


Psychological fiction

PG3337.L4 / G4133 1992

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