{"product_id":"a-hero-of-our-time-penguin-classics-9780143105633","title":"A Hero of Our Time Penguin Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first major Russian novel, \u003ci\u003eA Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov's own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess's\u003ci\u003e A Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Natasha Randall's English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity. . . . (Nabokov's version, the best-known older translation, is a bit more demure than Randall's, less savage.)\" —\u003cb\u003eJames Wood, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] smart, spirited new translation.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper.\" —\u003cb\u003eNeil LaBute, from the Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732519825751,"sku":"9780143105633","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780143105633.jpg?v=1719997242","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-hero-of-our-time-penguin-classics-9780143105633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}