Mikhail Lermontov, Geroi nashego vremeni [A Hero of Our Time]

Robert Reid (University of Keele)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

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First circulation or publication 1839 - 1840

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Russia (Country of Origin)

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Geroi nashego vremeni

[

A Hero of Our Time

] is Lermontov's only novel and ranks as one of the great classics of Russian nineteenth-century literature. It is of unorthodox structure, consisting of five separate stories linked by a common hero, Grigorii Pechorin. Three of these stories

Bela

The Fatalist

and

Taman

, were published as separate entities in 1839 and 1840 in a contemporary Russian literary journal. The other two,

Maksim Maksimych

and

Princess Mary

were published as part of the complete novel in 1840. The work is autobiographical in as much as Pechorin's adventures in the Caucasus reflect the writer's own experiences during his military posting to the region. Most remarkably, Piatigorsk, the scene of Pechorin's duel with Grushnitsky in

Princess Mary

, was also to be the place where…

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Citation: Reid, Robert. "Geroi nashego vremeni". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 April 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16890, accessed 22 November 2024.]

Mikhail Lermontov, Geroi nashego vremeni [A Hero of Our Time]

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