Contemporary Heroes (golden Classics of Russian Literature)
by J
About This Novel
"My soul has been destroyed by this flashy world." A monologue of the soul in a depressed era, a classic novel that will impress young people of every era. The protagonist Bi Qiaolin has incomparable willpower and tries his best to fight against the hypocritical society and his contradictory self. He is cynical, roughly stripping away the false worldly values, squandering his complex soul, deceiving women's feelings, mocking men's friendship, and mocking the tyranny of the government. He plays with the society of the entire era, and also fights with his inner self, sincerely exposing his own emptiness and patheticness. The author uses the image of a "contemporary hero" to reflect many bad habits of society throughout the era, and synthesizes a sharp but touching spiritual outlook. This image is extremely modern and even transcends time and space, making us living today realize that the unknown side of our hearts is responding stupidly when reading. "Contemporary Heroes" is a novel that explores the soul. It is a collection of travel notes, diaries and confessions. It contains five interrelated novels - "Bella", "Maxim Maximich", "Taman", "Princess Merry" and "The Fatalist", as well as two prefaces. The stories are intertwined and narrated by three narrators, integrating into a unique story feast. It created a new situation in the genre of Russian novels, enriched the depth of psychological analysis, influenced and created subsequent writers such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov.
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