'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian...

A typical Byronic-hero novel, Lermontov's protagonist bombards the reader with his bipolar behavior: both sensitive and cynical, his extreme arrogance borders on deep melancholy. An existential dreamer...

Maxim Maximych, um velho oficial do exército, viaja entre as montanhas do Cáucaso contando as histórias do diário de um amigo, Pechorin, que ele não encontra há um certo tempo. Pechorin era jovem, corajoso,...

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel A Hero of Our Time. But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living...

A Hero of Our Time is a novel written by Russian author Mikhail Lermontov. It was first published in 1840 and is considered one of the foundational works of Russian literature. The novel is often regarded...

O romance Herói da Nossa Época foi escrito por Mikhail Lêrmontov na década de 1830. A par da famosa Confissão de um Filho do Século, de Alfred de Musset, este livro enxuto, mas admirável em plena acepção...

"Un héros de notre temps" est le premier roman véritablement psychologique de la littérature russe. Sombre, romantique et désabusé, étrange et décousu, c'est un aperçu incisif de la sensibilité russe...