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(Book Coat Standing: Jacketed)In its daring happenings–its abductions, duels, and erotic intrigues–A Hero of Our Time appears backward for the stories of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so precious by European culture in the ’30s and 1820s. Within the personality of its protagonist, Pechorin–the archetypal Russian antihero–Lermontov’s novel looks forward to the following glories of the Russian literature that it assisted, in good measure, to create possible.This version features a Translator’s Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who interpreted the novel in cooperation together with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.