Mikhail Lermontov
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Mikhail Lermontov's pioneering psychological novel, "A Hero of Our Time", is probably his most impactful work, one which influenced the works of other great Russian authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The novel's narrative is the story of Pechorin a young officer in the army whose story is told in five non-chronological parts. Drawing upon his own experiences in the military, Lermontov creates a fascinating anti-hero in Pechorin, a man who is...
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Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time follows the story of Pechorin, a young man who is seemingly apathetic to the world around him. Through his interactions with other characters, Pechorin displays a range of contradictory personality traits, including arrogance, naïveté, and cynicism. His development over the course of the novel is complex and multi-layered, and his ultimate fate is left ambiguous.
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Bursting into print with an impassioned poem on the death of Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov attracted unfavorable attention from the authorities while enjoying a high reputation in literary circles and beyond. He was of Scottish descent, and this bilingual volume celebrates him with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish. Although Lermontov declared in one poem that he was not Byron,' he was greatly influenced by his reading of Byron...