Hero of our time

“The appearance of the beautiful novel by G. Lermontov is doubly gratifying: he gives the public the subject of true aesthetic pleasure and assures her that Russian literature has not yet died, but only sleeps, like an enchanted beauty, whose mouth is occasionally babbled with captivating dreams,” wrote about the “hero of our hero. time "The famous literary critic Vissarion Belinsky. The writer himself admitted that he wrote a portrait, but not one person, but a "portrait composed of vices of our entire generation, in their full development. People like Pechorin, the protagonist of the narrative, Lermontov probably met in high -society living rooms. The writer"s sharp gaze aptly noticed all the details of the character and nuances of behavior, and at the right time he was able to display all this on paper. Pechorin is almost the brother of Pushkinsky Eugene Onegin. They could well be friends, and then just as easy to shoot at a duel.
"Hero of our time" - a true pearl of domestic literature, not subject to aging and capable of captivating readers of all ages