num_pages: 210
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Hero of Our Time
titlecomplete: A Hero of Our Time
characters: Dr. Werner, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, Grushnitsky, Bela, Vera (A Hero of Our Time), Vulich, Maxim Maximytch, Princess Mary, Kazbich
genres: Fiction, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 57078
places: Caucasus
publisher: Abrams Press