The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first published in 1840, A Hero of Our Time follows Pechorin as he embarks on an exciting adventure involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers.
This edition includes a new introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, maps, and full explanatory notes.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0140447954
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches
"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
Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
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