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A Hero of Our TimeA Hero of Our Time
Through a set of linked tales, we assemble the portrait of Pechorin, a brilliant, bored, coldly charming officer who wounds everyone who loves him, against the mountains of the Caucasus. Russia’s first great psychological novel.
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The dazzling, cynical portrait of a “superfluous man” that set the template for Russian fiction, modern, ironic, and psychologically merciless. Short and endlessly influential.
SettingThe Caucasus, 1830s
The wild Caucasus frontier of the 1830s, where bored aristocratic officers played out their private dramas against a backdrop of mountains and small colonial wars.