Hero of our time. Lermontov M.Yu.

“Hero of our time” (1840) is rightfully considered the first psychological novel in Russian literature.

The basis of the story is the story of the life of the protagonist, Grigory Pechorin. The work consists of five parts located not in chronological order, but this has its own logic. The writer gradually begins to immerse the reader into the inner world of his hero, cynic, the burner of life, not believing, contradictory and ambiguous.

, at the same time, the “Hero of our time” is also a philosophical work that raises the most important questions about the meaning of life, about the role of fatum; This is also a love novel, fascinating, exciting and tragic.

written in the century before last, “Hero of our Time”, does not lose its relevance, because every generation has its own heroes, its pichorins, their “extra people ".