A Hero of Our Time

von Mikhail Lermontov

208 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'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.

• Reihe: riverrun editions
• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9781529431216
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2024
• Größe: 129 x 198 mm
• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Übersetzung: Vladimir Nabokov