A Hero Of Our Time Sparknotes

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In A Hero of Our Time, written by Mikhail Lermontov and translated by Vladimir Nabokov is a novel that was written during the romantic period of Russian literature. A Hero of Our Time was published in 1840 and complies stories of a Byronic hero, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, which is evident among the travelers’ notes, tales and his personal journals. In the novel, the way Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin’s imperfect and dysfunctional relationships with the numerous female individuals combined with the tranquility that appears throughout internal monologues generates a gap that expose the fights of lack of confidence that he, and much of Russian society challenged. Lermontov discovers the weakness of humanity and demonstrates the reader to