A Hero of Our Time (Translation by Natasha Randall 2009) Edition: Penguin Books (2009)

{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 208 pages Published: 1840 Edition: Penguin Books (2009) Greatest Books (amalgamated list of best books) Translation from Russian, introduction and notes by: Natasha Randall (2009) Foreword by: Neil LaBute (2009) A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian Literature.The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov's [...]own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute. "One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper."--Neil LaBute, from the Foreword