Authors: Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov (Translator), Dmitri Nabokov
ISBN-13: 9780875010496, ISBN-10: 0875010490
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Overlook Press, The
Date Published: June 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is renowned as Russia's one true Romantic poet. He was killed in a duel, one of a number he fought in during his lifetime.
Neil Labute is a filmmaker and playwright whose work includes In the Company of Men and The Shape of Things.
Natasha Randall has published translations of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (shortlisted for the 2008 Oxford- Weidenfeld Translation Prize) and Osip Mandelstam's poetry. She is a frequent contributor to theLos Angeles Times.
Treachery and sexual intrigue abound in this gripping and influential Russian novel. Its picaresque tales trace a Byronic hero's exploits amid the rugged Caucasian frontier.
Introduction | ||
Part one | ||
I | Bela | 7 |
II | Maxim Maximich | 44 |
Pechorin's journal | ||
I | Taman | 59 |
Part two | ||
II | Princess Mary | 75 |
III | The fatalist | 151 |