A Hero of Our Time

«A Hero of Our Time» is rightly considered the first psychological novel in Russian literature. The narrative is based on the life story of the main character, Grigory Pechorin. The work consists of five parts, arranged not in chronological order, but there is a certain logic to it. The writer gradually immerses the reader into the inner world of his hero—a cynic, a reckless person, believing in nothing, contradictory and ambiguous. Despite all this, «A Hero of Our Time» is also a philosophical work that poses important questions to the reader about the meaning of life and the role of fate; it is also a love story, captivating, thrilling, and tragic. Written in the past century,

«A Hero of Our Time» does not lose its relevance because in every generation there are its heroes, its Pechorins, its «superfluous men».