A Hero of Our Time
Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
ISBN: 9780812970760
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2004
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
UNIQUE FEATURES- A MAJOR NEW TRANSLATION by one of today's leading Russian translators, a new Introduction by Gary Shteyngart; map of the Caucasus, glossary, endnotes, reading group guide.
COMPETITION- Two other translations in print- Penguin's 1966 Paul Foote translation revised in 2001 (loses some of Lermontov's spareness and doesn't capture the social and cultural nuances of characters) and Everyman's Library's 1958 Nabokov translation (prepared by both Vladimir and Dmitri) which reflects an idiosyncratic blend of 2 styles.
In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Timelooks 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.
ISBN: 9780812970760
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2004
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
UNIQUE FEATURES- A MAJOR NEW TRANSLATION by one of today's leading Russian translators, a new Introduction by Gary Shteyngart; map of the Caucasus, glossary, endnotes, reading group guide.
COMPETITION- Two other translations in print- Penguin's 1966 Paul Foote translation revised in 2001 (loses some of Lermontov's spareness and doesn't capture the social and cultural nuances of characters) and Everyman's Library's 1958 Nabokov translation (prepared by both Vladimir and Dmitri) which reflects an idiosyncratic blend of 2 styles.
In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Timelooks 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.
