A Hero of Our Time

“A Hero of Our Time” is rightfully considered the first psychological novel in Russian literature. The story is based on the life history of the main character, Grigory Pechorin. The work consists of five parts placed not in chronological order, but there is a logic to this.

The writer gradually plunges the reader into the inner world of his hero—a cynic who burns through life, who trusts in nothing, contradictory and ambiguous. Yet “A Hero of Our Time” is also a philosophical work that poses the most important questions to the reader: the meaning of life, the role of fate. It’s also a love novel—engaging, stirring, and tragic.

Written in the previous century, “A Hero of Our Time” hasn’t lost its relevance, because in every generation there are their own heroes, their own Pechorins, their own “extra people.”