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A review by karinlib
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
4.0
It's been said that Pushkin is Russia's greatest poet and Lermontov is the second greatest. Personally, I like both of their novels, but if I were to choose which one I thought was the best, it would be Pushkin, his stories are sublime.
A Hero of Our Time begins with an unnamed narrator (a Russian soldier)that is traveling through the Georgian mountains, meets up with an old soldier named Maxim Maximych. Maxim tells the story of Pechorin a young officer, that so intrigues the unnamed narrator that he listens intently, and it takes a couple of nights to tell the story.
More than the story of this short novel, I really like Lermontov's prose and gorgeous descriptions.
What is ironic that both Pushkin and Lermontov were killed in duels.
A Hero of Our Time begins with an unnamed narrator (a Russian soldier)that is traveling through the Georgian mountains, meets up with an old soldier named Maxim Maximych. Maxim tells the story of Pechorin a young officer, that so intrigues the unnamed narrator that he listens intently, and it takes a couple of nights to tell the story.
More than the story of this short novel, I really like Lermontov's prose and gorgeous descriptions.
What is ironic that both Pushkin and Lermontov were killed in duels.