Questions tagged [a-hero-of-our-time]
Questions about Mikhail Lermontov's novel 'A Hero of Our Time' (Russian: Герой нашего времени; first published in 1840). Use this tag with the tags [mikhail-lermontov] and [russian-literature].
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Was Pechorin really "not a hero"? [duplicate]
In the famous novel by Mikhail Lermontov "Hero of our time" Pechorin, the main hero of the novel is presented to have all the vices of human-kind. The prologue Lermontov says that, I paraphrase, the ...
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Why is Pechorin a hero of our time?
In Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (Герой нашего времени), the main hero is Grigory Pechorin, a cynical noble army man, an example of superfluous Byronic hero.
The title of the novel has to ...
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