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• 07 October 2018
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Read & Download ¸ Герой нашего времени Free download » eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ê Mikhail Lermontov Ch makes it all the ironic that the main character Pushkin like the author was killed in a due I ve been meaning to read this one for a while It s one of those Russian classics that s always on those lists A Hero of Our Time has an interesting format It s split into sections but these sections are all very different and sometimes don t even involve our hero Pechorin This is all well and good but for a novel that s under 200 pages you d think that Lermontov would have actually focused on some sort of plot instead of piss arseing around with the structure Not to mention that this novel is basically Caucasus fanfiction At points you d think Lermontov got off with the mountains or something the way he writes about them It s like Tolkien and his blades of fucking grass However eventually the story does actually being at some point near the end and we are presented with an enjoyable and classic love story Russian style which is shorthand for death Why would you read this Well because it s basically Russian literature s euivalent of David Copperfield and the main character Pechorin is a whiny cunt I mean he hates everything and is constantly complaining about women and life and life and women he s basically the Russian Holden Caulfield but without the brother issues I saw a lot of myself in Pechorin Which worried me slightly Cruel to be Kind it all the White Shark ironic that the main character Pushkin like the author was killed The Ever of Callie and Kayden The Coincidence #8 in a due I ve been meaning to read this one for a while It s one of those Russian classics that s always on those lists A Hero of Our Time has an The Chaperon Bride WITH Wayward Widow AND The Penniless Bride Historical S interesting format It s split Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skates A Story of Life in Holland into sections but these sections are all very different and sometimes don t even Doc Featherstones Return Lost Shifters #24 involve our hero Pechorin This Tia and the Firefighter The Pleasure Of His Punishment​ #12 is all well and good but for a novel that s under 200 pages you d think that Lermontov would have actually focused on some sort of plot Bright and Early Thursday Evening A Tangled Tale instead of piss arseing around with the structure Not to mention that this novel My valiant knight is basically Caucasus fanfiction At points you d think Lermontov got off with the mountains or something the way he writes about them It s like Tolkien and his blades of fucking grass However eventually the story does actually being at some point near the end and we are presented with an enjoyable and classic love story Russian style which The White Lantern is shorthand for death Why would you read this Well because Dual Abduction Alien Abduction #3 it s basically Russian literature s euivalent of David Copperfield and the main character Pechorin Seven Wishes is a whiny cunt I mean he hates everything and Stumptown Vol 1 is constantly complaining about women and life and life and women he s basically the Russian Holden Caulfield but without the brother The Natural Mind Waking Up Volume I issues I saw a lot of myself Surprised by Suffering in Pechorin Which worried me slightly

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Read & Download ¸ Герой нашего времени Free download » eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ê Mikhail Lermontov An adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries whi A Hero of Our Time part swashbuckler part travelogue which first appeared in 1839 cleary had an influence over another certain famous Russian writer who sported a great big long grey beard Infact this could uite easily have been written by Tolstoy himself Opening in a vast landscape the narrator is travelling through the Caucasus he explains that he is not a novelist but a travel writer making notes Think a sort of Paul Theroux type The mountainous region were supposedly fabled Noah s ark apparently passed by the twin peaks of Mount Elborus Must have been a wonderful spectacle for the elephants giraffes and rhinos Beyond the natural border of the River Terek was an alluring and dangerous terrain where Ossetians Georgians Tatars and Chechens harried Russian soldiers and travellers or offered uncertain alliances But just who could you trust Lermontov s narrator marvels at the purity of the mountain air and the delights of welcoming a sense of withdrawing from the world But he also feels a sombre and bewildering depth that the hidden valleys hold a foreboding He meets an old Caucasus hand a staff captain called Maxim Maximych who has been in Chechnya for a decade and who warns him about the dangerous ways of the region s inhabitants Maxim Maximych begins to rabble on to his new found friend about the ravishing tale of a young officer he met five years earlier Pechorin who is now dead had a lively energy and a changeable temperament he could hunt for days one minute and hide in his room the next Whilst spending time at Maximych s fort Bela the daughter of a Tatar prince caught his eye casting flirtatious looks at him as one does And even sings him a love song Ahhh how sweetThis story then involves the Prince s son who is after the horse of a local bandit Pechorin offers him a deal He steals the horse if Bela is delivered to him But after the exchange the bandit goes looking for bloodUnlike Tolstoy this is not some huge Russian beast of a novel as it sits comfortably at under two hundred pages Although there turns out to be three different narrators the whole thing works well and is perfectly graspable for anyone who has read any of the old Russian classics Lermontov doesn t beat around the bush when kicking things off and builds a picture straight away The book makes its points efficiently in a little amount of time The character of Pechorin was far intriguing than anyone else and his part of the overall story I found the better What is striking is Lermontov s handling of form the way Pechorin emerges gradually in a fragmented narrative that anticipates Modernism in its perspectival shifts The book not only pleased Leo but Gogol Dostoevsky and Chekhov as well Lermontov deserves to mingle in with this crowd He really wouldn t be out of place He demonstrates that literature is the most beautiful artform when written in this fashion

Read & Download ¸ Герой нашего времени Free download » eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ê Mikhail Lermontov Set in the Caucasus the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century this is both I started reading this book in ebook form because I was so eager to get to it prompted by the references in the notes of Sasha Sokolov s Between Dog and Wolf which I d just finished So imagine the following scenario I m reading Lermontov s book on my kindle I m listening to Mussorgsky s Night on Bare Mountain prompted by another Sokolov reference and I ve got a google map open on my iPad in order to follow the path Lermontov s narrator takes northwards from Tbilisi across the bare and brutal Caucasus mountains in a post chaise drawn by three horses while a fierce storm rages and avalanches threaten to block the mountain passes through which he travels As my eyes scroll the kindle screen I highlight each place mentioned and then mark the spot on the google map and I continue to do that as I read about the characters further journeys eastwards towards the Caspian Sea and westwards towards the Black Sea until finally the action ends somewhere in the middle near the town of Pyatigorsk in a scene where an exhausted horse drops dead on a mountain path A hero of his time indeed Back in our time I take a screen shot of my map and mark up the path I d followed in the tracks of all those exhausted horses And as I do that I think about that extra layer of record we all engage in every day via selfies food shots travel shots plus multiple other ways we use our always ready to shoot cameras though they contain no film but nevertheless record the film of our lives a documentary that will exist long after after we ourselves have left the frame view spoiler hide spoiler