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A Hero of Our Time

English

By (author): Mikhail Lermontov

Translated by: Vladimir Nabokov

'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.

Published in Russian in April 1840, A Hero of Our Time reached English in 1853, under the title 'Sketches of Life in the Caucasus, by a Russe.' Full of towering landscapes and local colour, it can be read as the travelogue of a poet and serving officer, but also as a portrait of the romantic as self-destructive anti-hero.

Vladimir Nabokov's translation of A Hero of Our Time was published in the United States in 1958, the same year as Lolita: world fame was about to overtake this committed Russian living in America.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 24 Oct 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 150g
  • Dimensions: 196 x 128mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529431216

About Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1941) was a Russian Romantic writer poet and painter.Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist poet translator and entomologist.Julian Barnes is the author of several books of stories essays a translation of Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain and numerous novels including the 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.

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