A Hero of Our Time
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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. It features Pechorin who is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom.
"Natasha Randall's English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity. . . (Nabokov's version, the best-known older translation, is a bit more demure than Randall's, less savage.)" —James Wood, London Review of Books
"[A] smart, spirited new translation." —The Boston Globe
"One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper." —Neil LaBute, from the Foreword
"[A] smart, spirited new translation." —The Boston Globe
"One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper." —Neil LaBute, from the Foreword
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was a Russian Romantic writer and poet. As a young man Lermontov was an officer in the guards, and was sent to fight in the Caucasus after insulting the tsar. His dramatic life ended after being shot down in a duel.
Natasha Randall has published translations of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (shortlisted for the 2008 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) and Osip Mandelstam's poetry as well as the work of contemporary writers Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Alexander Skidan, and Olga Zondberg. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, she lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143105633 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143105639 |
| Title | A Hero of Our Time |
| Author | Mikhail Lermontov |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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