Open Access«Маски» в «Герое нашего времени» М. Ю. Лермонтова<br>(«Masks» in M. Ju. Lermontov’s «A Hero of our Time»)
Author(s) -
Эрик Эгеберг
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
poljarnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-9671
pISSN - 1500-7502
DOI - 10.7557/6.1328
Subject(s) - hero , phenomenon , art , function (biology) , social function , psychology , literature , aesthetics , advertising , philosophy , humanities , epistemology , business , biology , evolutionary biology
In M. Ju. Lermontov's novel «A Hero of our Time» almost every person is wearing a «mask», trying to conceal his or her real intentions-or, on the contrary, taking advantage of the mask, doing or saying things otherwise condemned by the prevailing social conventions. This paper offers a brief analysis of the phenomenon and its function in the structure of the novel