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ISBN-10: 0679413278
ISBN-13: 9780679413271
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publish Date: 06/30/1992
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.12" W, 0.72" H

A Hero of Our Time: Introduction by T. J. Binyon

Foreword by: Vladimir Nabokov
Translator: Vladimir Nabokov
Translator: Dmitri Nabokov
Introduction by: T J Binyon

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Overview

In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A 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 ’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.

This edition includes a Translator’s Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.

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"In [A Hero of Our Time], Lermontov managed to create a fictional person whose romantic dash to cynicism, tiger-like suppleness and eagle eye, hot blood and cool head, tenderness and taciturnity, elegance and brutality, delicacy of perception and harsh passion to dominate, ruthlessness and awareness of it, are of lasting appeal to readers of all countries and centuries." -from the Translator's Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov

"[Lermontov's] technique is surprisingly sophisticated, given the late development of the novel in Russian literature. Lermontov does not only dislocate chronology to achieve [his] result; in equally brilliant fashion he reinforces the effect by employing different contemporary literary genres . . . to create, in the end, a unified whole." -from the Introduction by T. J. Binyon

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679413278
ISBN-13: 9780679413271
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publish Date: 06/30/1992
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.12" W, 0.72" H
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