A review by rosebudglow
A Hero of Our Time by Andrew Kahn, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Mikhail Lermontov

3.0

For some reason I didn't find this one particularly moving. Maybe it was the frame narrative? Maybe it was that I read it online? I think Pechorin was a much less compelling Byronic hero than Eugene Onegin, definitely less romantic and more calculating. Prose was also less compelling, less musical, less enthralling—obviously a question of translation. Overall solid; maybe the comparison isn't fair.