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From Amazon : On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and arrogance with melancholy and sensitivity. Causing an uproar in Russia when it was first published in 1840, Lermontov's brilliant, seminal study of contemporary society and the nihilistic aspect of Romanticism remains compelling to this day. Nowadays this isn't as compellling and I wouldn't say that it was brilliant either but I enjoyed reading it and it does tell you something of Russian Society at the time. It's well written and the characters are well formed as is the plot. Recommended.
