Reading A Hero of Our Time | Alexandria
Read A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. Blazing through Russian nihilism, Lermontov's antihero exposes our own emptiness and pursuit of meaning. His radical take? True self-knowledge is impossible - we're all unreliable narrators of our lives, manipulating memories to serve our egos. This bold claim about human nature still haunts us in our social media era of curated identities.