Lermontov
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Mikhail Lermontov — poet, soldier, and brooding genius of Russian Romanticism — burned through life with an intensity that matched the stormy Caucasian landscapes he immortalised in verse and prose, and Janko Lavrin's critical study brings this turbulent figure vividly to life. In this authoritative and penetrating examination, Lavrin chronicles the tragically short life of Russia's second great poet, tracing the arc of a literary career that produced A Hero of Our Time and a body of lyric poetry that electrified 19th-century Russian letters — all before Lermontov's death in a duel at just twenty-six years of age. Lavrin, a distinguished Slavic scholar and critic, brings the same incisive analytical rigour he applied to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol to this compact yet richly detailed portrait. He situates Lermontov within the broader currents of European Romanticism while illuminating the distinctly Russian quality of his fatalism, his defiance, and his existential despair. Written with the lucidity and cultural authority that defined the Bowes & Bowes literary studies series, this work presents an essential gateway into the mind of a poet whose fierce, uncompromising vision continues to challenge and haunt readers — leaving one to wonder what further heights this fallen star might have reached.
Author: Janko Lavrin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Mikhail Lermontov — poet, soldier, and brooding genius of Russian Romanticism — burned through life with an intensity that matched the stormy Caucasian landscapes he immortalised in verse and prose, and Janko Lavrin's critical study brings this turbulent figure vividly to life. In this authoritative and penetrating examination, Lavrin chronicles the tragically short life of Russia's second great poet, tracing the arc of a literary career that produced A Hero of Our Time and a body of lyric poetry that electrified 19th-century Russian letters — all before Lermontov's death in a duel at just twenty-six years of age. Lavrin, a distinguished Slavic scholar and critic, brings the same incisive analytical rigour he applied to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol to this compact yet richly detailed portrait. He situates Lermontov within the broader currents of European Romanticism while illuminating the distinctly Russian quality of his fatalism, his defiance, and his existential despair. Written with the lucidity and cultural authority that defined the Bowes & Bowes literary studies series, this work presents an essential gateway into the mind of a poet whose fierce, uncompromising vision continues to challenge and haunt readers — leaving one to wonder what further heights this fallen star might have reached.