A Hero of Our Time

''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.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Barnes, Mikhail Lermontov
• Assisted by: Vladimir Nabokov (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9781529431216
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-3121-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: riverrun editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Russia, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, Fiction: general and literary