A Hero Of Our Time

The Byronic adventures of s Russian army officer. Against the romantic backdrop of the Caucasian mountains in the 1830s, a travelling reporter unveils the colourful wartime historyand ironic confessions of Pechorin, a deliberate rake. Whether involved in abducting a tribal chieftain's daughter, escaping the wiles of a female smuggler, testing fate in duels and Russian roulette or orchestrating intrigue and seduction at a fashionable spa, Pechorin the existentialist has his own disarming explanation. At once a playful study of cynicism and a tribute to rebellion, A hero of Our Time is justly termed the first great Russian novel.