A Hero of Our Time

'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.

,,Raman intr-o admiratie neschimbata pentru aceasta intreprindere indrazneata, indrazneata si lipsita de griji, un prim roman publicat cand autorul avea douazeci si cinci de ani, care s-a dovedit a fi prima capodopera in proza in limba rusa", din prefata sa Julian Barnes.