Contemporary heroes

Author: Lermontov
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: The author of this book, Lermontov, is a renowned Russian poet and novelist. His creation, "The Hero of Our Time," is one of the most outstanding classic novels in Russian literature. The novel depicts the experiences of Pyatigorsk, a young noble officer, in the Caucasus. Due to his inability to avoid spiritual emptiness and moral decline, he is dissatisfied with the secular reality, lives a carefree life, seeks excitement everywhere, creates trouble unnecessarily, and plays with women, as he confesses in his diary: "I am obsessed with empty and meaningless desires; tempered by desires, I have become as hard and cold as iron, but I have forever lost the flame of noble aspirations, the most beautiful flower of life." The artistic character of Pyatigorsk marks the birth of the "superfluous man" suffering from the disease of the era in Russian literature. The structure of this book is exquisite, and the narrative and descriptions are concise and beautiful, elevating Russian prose literature to the height of poetry.