A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will s[...]

Originally published in Russian in 1840 Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time" greatly influenced the later works of other great Russian authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. "A Hero of Our Time" is a pioneering work in the genre of the anti-hero novel. The novel's narrative is the story of Pechorin a [...]

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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'[...]