by Vladimir Golstein
Northwestern University Press, 2012
Cloth: 978-0-8101-1611-5 | Paper: 978-0-8101-2872-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6581-6
Library of Congress Classification PG3337.L47C484 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.713

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This is the first study of Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) that attempts to integrate the in-depth interpretations of all his major texts--including his famous A Hero of Our Time, the novel that laid the foundation for the Russian psychological novel.

Lermontov's explorations of the virtues and limitations of heroic, self-reliant conduct have subsequently become obscured or misread. This new book focuses upon the peculiar, disturbing, and arguably most central feature of Russian culture: its suspicion of and hostility toward individual achievement and self-assertion. The analysis and interpretation of Lermontov's texts enables Golstein to address broader cultural issues by exploring the reasons behind the persistent misreading of Lermontov's major works and by investigating the cultural attitudes that shaped Russia's reaction to the challenges of modernity.

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