Hero of our time

In the series" Nigma. Favorites" in gift design is classical works of world literature with illustrations of outstanding artists. In January 2021, Anatoly Zinovievich Itkin celebrated his nineteen -year -old anniversary, and the publication of the novel “Hero of Our Time” is released by this date.
Anatoly Zinovievich worked on illustrations for this work for thirty years. The artist visited the North Caucasus to penetrate the atmosphere of places described in the book and convey it in graphic works, revealing to the reader the complex and diverse inner world of the protagonist.
"Hero of our time" is the largest and most significant work of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, the first socio -psychological novel in Russian literature, whose hero, young officer Grigory Pechorin, became a truly bright representative of his era. Belinsky’s literary critic noted: “Here is a book that is destined to never old, because at the birth of it, it was lost by the live water of poetry! This old book will always be new. "
The structure of the novel is unique: each of the chapters located not in chronological order can be attributed to a separate literary genre, but together they form an organic and whole work. All stories and characters serve only the background on which the dramatic fate of a person unfolds with a soul boiling from hidden passions, but at the same time cold and selfish