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If Pechorin's cold psychological self-analysis gripped you, these picks trace the tradition of the morally ambiguous, self-aware outsider from Pushkin's Onegin to Dostoevsky's underground man.
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Eugene Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin
The first superfluous man — Pechorin's predecessor and the literary type Lermontov was deepening and darkening.
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The underground man — Pechorin's bitter, self-lacerating descendant, trapped in a Petersburg basement.
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
Bazarov — the third great outsider, who has turned Pechorin's nihilism into a philosophical program.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Meursault — the twentieth-century heir to Pechorin's constitutional indifference, in an Algerian sun.
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Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
The superfluous man who has given up entirely — the passive endpoint of the type Pechorin represents.
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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
Harry Haller — another man unable to fit the world, the Pechorin type transposed to Weimar Germany.
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The Demon and Other Poems
by Mikhail Lermontov
The verse that gave Pechorin his Byronic spirit — Lermontov's poetry and prose form one world.
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Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
The Russia Pechorin inhabits — provincial, corrupt, and absurd — from the opposite satirical angle.
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