Contemporary Heroes: Selected Poems of Lermontov (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Lermontov
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is another monumental achievement in the history of Russian literature, created by Lermontov after drawing inspiration from the poetic novel Eugene Onegin by Pushkin and boldly innovating. It employs a multi-channel, multi-angle narrative style that leaves room for readers' imagination, along with an in-depth psychological analysis of the characters, forming a new genre of social psychology and philosophical fiction. It played a pioneering role in the psychological portrayals of authors like,·,, and others. If Eugene Onegin is prose within poetry, then this book is poetry within prose. Together, these two masterpieces became the sources of Russian long novels, along with's Dead Souls, firmly establishing the foundation of modern Russian long fiction.