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What does /lit/ think of "A hero of our time"?
I really enjoyed it, but this end though..

>pic unrelated
I read the translation of Albert de Villamarie (in French) if someone is interested.

>> No.5274810

>>5274711
I liked the last story most actually. I didn't like the longest story beacuse of the romantic thematic.
I guess that's why I like Tolstoy's Cossacks a lot more.

Also, Lermontov was part negro.

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5274993

I can't separate the two tales. Wasn't there more in one other book though, or was that something left unfinished? The lead was a turd, but you enjoy reading about him. Still, no tears lost at his end.

>>5274810
>Also, Lermontov was part negro.
Really? Wasn't that Pushkin?

>> No.5275076

>>5274993
>I can't separate the two tales
You mean the first two?

>Wasn't there more in one other book though, or was that something left unfinished?
But he finished it

>The lead was a turd
What do you mean?

>>5274810
>>5274993
Also, do you have any works to advise me, in the same genre?

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>>5275076
I guess there are three tales. I liked them all.
He's not an actual hero, just some drifting dilettante.

Same sorts of stories. Byron? You could probably find some similar Russians

>> No.5275138

>>5275105
>I guess there are three tales. I liked them all.
I think I personally preferred the second one and, once I finished it, the first one.

>He's not an actual hero, just some drifting dilettante.
But isn't the title supposed to be ironic? Lermonty didn't consider him as a hero right?

>> No.5275167

You guys consider this a short story collection?

>> No.5275191

>>5275167
I personally not. They are all strongly linked and you cannot fully appreciate the first one if you didn't finish it. So no.

>> No.5275248

I'm reading it next

Skimmed through to check out the writing style and it seemed purple af

>> No.5275271

>>5275248
Pardon me, but what is "purple af"?

>> No.5275330

>>5274993
Oh yeah, Pushkin.
Damn I suck at funfacts or whatever you call that.

>> No.5275355

>>5275138
>But isn't the title supposed to be ironic? Lermonty didn't consider him as a hero right?

Read the narrator's prologue of Pechorin's diary.

It isn't really irony. He is a "hero of our time".