Bonus Episode: Sleep with Classic Books
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Show Notes
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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (1840) | The turbulent backdrop of Russia in the 1840s is our setting as we navigate the stirring brilliance of Mikhail Lermontov's unforgettable masterpiece, "A Hero of Our Time".
There's a complex duality within its enigmatic protagonist, Pechorin. We'll find an audacious story teetering between romantic idealism and societal cynicism.
Listen now to discover a society recovering from historic upheavals, a generation's defiant spirit, and learn how Lermontov's transgressive masterpiece was instrumental in reshaping Russian literature.