A Hero of Our Time

Author

Mikhail Lermontov

Original Work

A Hero of Our Time

Translators

Dmitri Nabokov·Vladimir Nabokov

Language

English

Year

1992

Publisher

Knopf

Country

United States

Pages

186

ISBN

9780679413271

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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’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.— Google Books