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A Hero of Our Time, a fundamental work for understanding the transition from Romanticism to Realism in Russian literature, consists of five interconnected stories centered around a single protagonist, Pechorin, a disillusioned young Russian officer. He describes his own soul as half-dead and happiness as the ability to exert power over others. The narrative unfolds in a spiral structure, with each story growing, revealing, and masking its contours, akin to five mountain peaks guiding a traveler through the meanders of a Caucasian canyon. Lermontov, like other great Russian authors such as Pushkin and Tolstoy, pays literary tribute to the indomitable mountain peoples who never submitted to Russian domination, who rebelled time and again, and who shared a certain respect, compatible with hatred, with their staunchest enemies, the Cossacks who guarded the borders of the Tsarist empire.
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A Hero of Our Time, Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
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- Titul
- A Hero of Our Time
- Jazyk
- anglicky, rusky
- Vydavateľ
- Foreign Languages Publishing House
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Série
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Láska, 19. storočie, Rusko, Ruská literatúra, Modernizmus, Kaukaz, Nihilizmus
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- Geroj našego vremeni
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- 4,1 z 5
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- A Hero of Our Time, a fundamental work for understanding the transition from Romanticism to Realism in Russian literature, consists of five interconnected stories centered around a single protagonist, Pechorin, a disillusioned young Russian officer. He describes his own soul as half-dead and happiness as the ability to exert power over others. The narrative unfolds in a spiral structure, with each story growing, revealing, and masking its contours, akin to five mountain peaks guiding a traveler through the meanders of a Caucasian canyon. Lermontov, like other great Russian authors such as Pushkin and Tolstoy, pays literary tribute to the indomitable mountain peoples who never submitted to Russian domination, who rebelled time and again, and who shared a certain respect, compatible with hatred, with their staunchest enemies, the Cossacks who guarded the borders of the Tsarist empire.