RUSS 223 Lecture 12: RUSS 223 - Lecture 12 - October 17th
22 Feb 2018
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Mikhail lermontov (1814-1841); a hero of our time (1840) A hero of our time: literary precedents, pushkin (links to tales of gelkin [abbreviated title] and eugene onegin , lord byron: loves him. He needs to come up with a new way to do this: epistolary novel (novel in letters) is another method, but we only get the first person perspective. Therefore, we lose the third person perspective on a character: comes up with his own form that will be a huge step toward famous. Russian novels: the implied author"s introduction (may be. Little respect for them: claims that they will take things too literally, ex. They will think the hero is a self-portrait: gives us comments that will affect how we read the novel, ex. We are far away from knowing the hero, but will get closer and closer as the novel progresses: p. 23: introduced to the theme of fate: maxim says that some people are.
