A Hero of Our Time

by Lermontov, Mikhail; Foote, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780140447958
• ISBN10: 0140447954
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group
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Summary

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'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.

Author Biography

Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword	p. v
The Author's Introduction	p. 1
Bela	p. 3
Maksim Maksimich	p. 50
Introduction to Pechorin's Journal	p. 63
Taman	p. 65
Princess Mary	p. 81
The Fatalist	p. 182
Notes	p. 195
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