A bored, brilliant, cynical army officer wounds everyone around him in a set of linked Caucasus tales. Lermontov's foundational Russian novel of the 'superfluous man.'
Books mentioned in A Hero of Our Time (2)
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect--he read it to his friends.”
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: “By the way: the other day, Werner compared women to the enchanted forest of which Tasso tells in his "Jerusalem Delivered."”
Books that mention A Hero of Our Time (1)
The Fall by Albert Camus: epigraph: "Some were dreadfully insulted...to have held up as a model such an immoral character as A Hero of Our Time"