by Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Natasha Randall (Translator)
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 stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 208
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 27 Aug 2009
ISBN 10: 0143105639
ISBN 13: 9780143105633
[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