Author: Mikhail Lermontov Year: 1840 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic Culture: Russia
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ISBNs: 9780140441765 9780140447958 014044176X 0140447954 |
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In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, 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.
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