Comments on: A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov http://www.bibliographing.com/2010/03/08/a-hero-of-our-time-by-mikhail-lermontov/ or, writing about books Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eva http://www.bibliographing.com/2010/03/08/a-hero-of-our-time-by-mikhail-lermontov/comment-page-1/#comment-8896 Eva Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:52:47 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=2429#comment-8896 Yep-it was part of a lit course when I was studying abroad in southern Russia. :) Yep-it was part of a lit course when I was studying abroad in southern Russia. :)

]]> By: Amateur Reader http://www.bibliographing.com/2010/03/08/a-hero-of-our-time-by-mikhail-lermontov/comment-page-1/#comment-8744 Amateur Reader Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:48:38 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=2429#comment-8744 Eva, that sounds suspiciously like "a literature course at the post-high school level." And what a course! Although I can see how being trapped in Taman just to absorb the Lermontovian ambience could be too much of a good thing. You know, the more I look at the feller on that Hesperus Press cover, the less he looks like <i>my</i> Pechorin. Let me check. Slim waist, dazzlingly clean linen, did not swing his arms. I guess that's not part of the picture. Pale, noble brow. Fair hair, wavy by nature. OK, maybe. No, it's the eyes, the paragraph about his eyes that you included, that's what's missing. In fairness, a bit hard to capture in a picture. Eva, that sounds suspiciously like “a literature course at the post-high school level.” And what a course! Although I can see how being trapped in Taman just to absorb the Lermontovian ambience could be too much of a good thing.

You know, the more I look at the feller on that Hesperus Press cover, the less he looks like my Pechorin. Let me check. Slim waist, dazzlingly clean linen, did not swing his arms. I guess that’s not part of the picture. Pale, noble brow. Fair hair, wavy by nature. OK, maybe.

No, it’s the eyes, the paragraph about his eyes that you included, that’s what’s missing. In fairness, a bit hard to capture in a picture.

]]> By: Eva http://www.bibliographing.com/2010/03/08/a-hero-of-our-time-by-mikhail-lermontov/comment-page-1/#comment-8703 Eva Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:40:36 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=2429#comment-8703 I wasn't fond of this novel, probably because I had to read it in English, in Russian, do some translation stuff, analyse some of Nabokov's translation, AND spend a long weekend in Taman, which is a tiny town with nothing except a Lermontov tribute thingy. So my professors destroyed whatever fun I might have gotten out of it! ;) But I'm always happy to see people praising Russian lit. :D I wasn’t fond of this novel, probably because I had to read it in English, in Russian, do some translation stuff, analyse some of Nabokov’s translation, AND spend a long weekend in Taman, which is a tiny town with nothing except a Lermontov tribute thingy. So my professors destroyed whatever fun I might have gotten out of it! ;)

But I’m always happy to see people praising Russian lit. :D

]]> By: only words to play with http://www.bibliographing.com/2010/03/08/a-hero-of-our-time-by-mikhail-lermontov/comment-page-1/#comment-8648 only words to play with Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:08:16 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=2429#comment-8648 Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Pechorin's journal. Nice entry! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Pechorin’s journal. Nice entry!

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