A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)

A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)

by Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Natasha Randall (Translator)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 208
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 27 Aug 2009

ISBN 10: 0143105639
ISBN 13: 9780143105633

Media Reviews
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

Author Bio
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.