Mikhail Lermontov

A Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or antihero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus. There are several English translations, including one by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov in 1958.

Lermontov - odno iz samyh vysokih, geroicheskih imen v russkoj literature. Pojeticheskij mir Lermontova porazhaet i zavorazhivaet svoej tainstvennoj glubinoj i moshh'ju, svoim muzhestvennym tragicheskim stroem. V jetom mire gospodstvuet ni na chto ne pohozhij, no bezoshibochno uznavaemyj lermontovskij jelement, kotoryj legche pochuvstvovat', chem opredelit' i ob#jasnit'. I vse zhe obshhie idei, lezhashhie v osnove pojezii Lermontova, poddajutsja opredeleniju i ob#jasneniju - jeto idei lichnosti i svobody, kotorye utverzhdaet pojet kak samye vysokie cennosti i kriterii. Lermontov nashel dlja jetih idej, sushhestvovavshih i do nego, osobyj aspekt i voplotil ih so strast'ju, svoeobraziem i polnotoj. Tvorchestvo Lermontova, nesushhee jeti idei, sposobstvovalo obostreniju kriticheskogo soznanija ego sovremennikov i bylo celikom napravleno protiv beschelovechnosti, rabstva i duhovnoj kosnosti. No i v nashi dni tvorchestvo Lermontova, ego bespokojnaja i mjatezhnaja pojezija, sohranjaja svoe velikoe istoricheskoe znachenie, vse eshhe podymaet voprosy, trevozhit i bespokoit.

Lermontov - odno iz samyh vysokih, geroicheskih imen v russkoj literature. Pojeticheskij mir Lermontova porazhaet i zavorazhivaet svoej tainstvennoj glubinoj i moshh'ju, svoim muzhestvennym tragicheskim stroem. V jetom mire gospodstvuet ni na chto ne pohozhij, no bezoshibochno uznavaemyj lermontovskij jelement, kotoryj legche pochuvstvovat', chem opredelit' i ob#jasnit'. I vse zhe obshhie idei, lezhashhie v osnove pojezii Lermontova, poddajutsja opredeleniju i ob#jasneniju - jeto idei lichnosti i svobody, kotorye utverzhdaet pojet kak samye vysokie cennosti i kriterii. Lermontov nashel dlja jetih idej, sushhestvovavshih i do nego, osobyj aspekt i voplotil ih so strast'ju, svoeobraziem i polnotoj. Tvorchestvo Lermontova, nesushhee jeti idei, sposobstvovalo obostreniju kriticheskogo soznanija ego sovremennikov i bylo celikom napravleno protiv beschelovechnosti, rabstva i duhovnoj kosnosti. No i v nashi dni tvorchestvo Lermontova, ego bespokojnaja i mjatezhnaja pojezija, sohranjaja svoe velikoe istoricheskoe znachenie, vse eshhe podymaet voprosy, trevozhit i bespokoit.

Skazhi-ka, djadja, ved' ne darom... - jeti slova iz lermontovskogo Borodino znakomy kazhdomu so shkol'noj skam'i. S nih pokolenie za pokoleniem vot uzhe pochti dva veka nachinaet znakomstvo s tvorchestvom Lermontova. Pomimo stihotvorenij v dannyj sbornik voshli takzhe romanticheskie pojemy Mcyri, Demon i Pesnja pro carja Ivana Vasil'evicha, molodogo oprichnika i udalogo kupca Kalashnikova.

V sbornik voshli sledujushhie proizvedenija Mikhaila Jur'evicha Lermontova: Knjaginja Ligovskaja Vadim Ashik Kerib Kavkazec Panorama Moskvy Shtoss Ja hochu rasskazat' vam

"Ja serdtsem tvoj, - vsegda i vsjudu tvoj!" Ne k zhenschine obraschena eta stroka velikogo russkogo poeta Mikhaila Jurevicha Lermontova (1814-1841) - k Kavkazu. "Kavkaz delaetsja ego poeticheskoj rodinoj" (Belinskij). Imenno tam, na Kavkaze, realii zhizni i velichestvennaja priroda udivitelnym obrazom sovpali s junosheskimi romanticheskimi mechtami poeta. Ved i "Demon", i "Mtsyri" byli zadumany im edva li ne v detstve, no posle znakomstva s Kavkazom poemy mnogokratno peredelyvalis, shlifovalis, dovodilis do sovershenstva. Nado li objasnjat, chto segodnja, kogda izvestna tragicheskaja sudba poeta, tak mnogo lichnogo prochityvaetsja i v odinochestve Demona posredi mirozdanija, i v beshenoj zhazhde zhizni Mtsyri. Porazitelno aktualno dlja potomkov vyskazalsja Lermontov v kavkazskikh stikhakh i poemakh - "Cherkesy", "Kavkazskij plennik", "Khadzhi Abrek" i drugie segodnja chitajutsja to kak reportazh s peredovoj, to kak gimn svobode i protest protiv despotii. Soprovoditelnaja statja Olgi Kuchkinoj Kuchkina Olga Andreevna - poet, prozaik, zhurnalist, dramaturg, televeduschaja. Okonchila MGU. S 4-go kursa fakulteta zhurnalistiki - obozrevatel gazety "Komsomolskaja pravda". Zasluzhennyj rabotnik kultury RSFSR. Chlen Sojuza zhurnalistov, Sojuza pisatelej Moskvy, Russkogo PEN-tsentra. Avtor bolee dvadtsati pjati knig. Spektakli po pesam Kuchkinoj postavleny na mnogikh stsenakh Rossii, a takzhe v Anglii, Frantsii, Finljandii, Shvetsii, Japonii.

Kniga "Borodino. Stikhotvorenie i poemy" iz serii "Vneklassnoe chtenie". V izdanie voshlo stikhotvorenie "Borodino" M. Ju. Lermontova, a takzhe dve poemy klassika russkoj literatury - "Mtsyri", "Pesnja pro tsarja Ivana Vasilevicha, molodogo oprichnika i udalogo kuptsa Kalashnikova".

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 – accompanied here by the unfinished novel Princess Ligovskaya – remains compelling to this day.

Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to typify Russian literature. Its “hero,” Grigorii Pechorin, also establisheda character type that became known in Russian fiction as “the superfluous man”—widely familiar from Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. At once driven by pride and wracked by selfdoubt, both shockingly self-revealing and blindly self-deceived,he flounders to affirm himself in a social world he despises yet yearns to dominate. Pechorin is a troubling and unforgettable character. And A Hero of Our Time, which has provoked much controversy, is a novel not only central to Russian literature butfundamental to the Western literary tradition of the antihero.

Vashemu vnimaniju predlagaetsja sbornik izbrannoj poezii M. Ju. Lermontova.

Mikhail Lermontov's pioneering psychological novel, "A Hero of Our Time", is probably his most impactful work, one which influenced the works of other great Russian authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The novel's narrative is the story of Pechorin a young officer in the army whose story is told in five non-chronological parts. Drawing upon his own experiences in the military, Lermontov creates a fascinating anti-hero in Pechorin, a man who is intelligent, calculating, manipulative, emotionally unavailable, arrogant, cynical, nihilistic, yet also sensitive. The principal accomplishment of "A Hero of Our Time" is the introduction of the Byronic anti-hero to Russian literature, a departure from the traditional idealized protagonist of the Romantic period which signifies a pivotal move towards the realism of the Modernist literary movement. As Lermontov describes in his preface: "A Hero of Our Time, my dear readers, is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that if you can believe in the existence of all the villains of tragedy and romance, why wouldn't believe that there was a Pechorin?" This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by George Reavey.

V knigu vkljucheny izbrannye poemy M. Ju. Lermontova kavkazskoj tematiki, sozdannye v raznye tvorcheskie periody zhizni poeta, ot rannikh sochinenij do zrelykh proizvedenij. Spetsialno dlja nastojaschego izdanija k 200-letiju so dnja rozhdenija poeta khudozhnik A. D. Rejpolskij sozdal seriju illjustratsij, v tom chisle 33 polosnykh, vypolnennykh v tekhnike litografii, raskrashennoj akvarelju. Dlja shirokogo kruga chitatelej.