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by: Lermontov, Mikhail; Randall, Natasha; Randall, Natasha; Randall, Natasha; Labute, Neil

ISBN: 9780143105633 | 0143105639

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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A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian Literature... MORE

The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov's own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-û1841) is renowned as Russia-'s one true Romantic poet. He was killed in a duel, one of a number he fought in during his lifetime.

Neil Labute is a filmmaker and playwright whose work includes In the Company of Men and The Shape of Things.

Natasha Randall has published translations of Yevgeny Zamyatin-'s We (shortlisted for the 2008 Oxford- Weidenfeld Translation Prize) and Osip Mandelstam-'s poetry. She is a frequent contributor to theLos Angeles Times.