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John Bayley, 30 August 1990
A Wicked Irony: The Rhetoric of Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of Our Time’
by Andrew Barratt and A.D.P. Briggs.
Bristol Classical Press, 139 pp., £25, May 1989,1 85399 020 5 Show More
by Andrew Barratt and A.D.P. Briggs.
Bristol Classical Press, 139 pp., £25, May 1989,
The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth
by Andrew Baruch Wachtel.
Stanford, 262 pp., $32.50, May 1990,0 8047 1795 8 Show More
by Andrew Baruch Wachtel.
Stanford, 262 pp., $32.50, May 1990,
“... the hero is always there because he has never existed. He is an aspect of literary sensibility. As Barratt and Briggs observe, ‘in Pechorin Lermontov created a character whose unhealthy commitment to inauthentic “bookish” behaviour makes him the direct forebear of the Underground Man.’ This is certainly true, for heroes have always modelled ... ”
