In its adventurous happeningsâits abductions, duels, and sexual intriguesâA 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 â30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorinâthe archetypal Russian antiheroâLermontovâs novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov & Natasha Randall
In its adventurous happeningsâits abductions, duels, and sexual intriguesâA 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 â30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorinâthe archetypal Russian antiheroâLermontovâs novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.