Hero of Our Time

<b>A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian literature</b><br> <b> </b><br> The first major Russian novel <i>A Hero of Our Time</i> 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<i> A Clockwork Orange</i> the novels of Chuck Palahniuk and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.