Anything else like picrel? There's just something extremely sincere about Pechorin that still feels like a breath of fresh air.

>Is there any other Byronic literature?
Yeah.

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>>24520685
But hero of our time feels different, even compared to other superfluous man literature. The other books I've read lack that distinct self-awareness Pechorin has, and just fall into cheap irony/critique, it seems similar but that pathos is fundamentally missing.

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Maybe Don Juan is different I haven't gone there yet but everything else I've read has been a disappointment.

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The point is not to embrace the superflous man nor to critique him, irony can say nothing meaningful. Both approaches fall completely flat. Rather you need to linger with him, be kindred in a real way. That's what hero of our time (maybe even despite Lermontov himself) achieves which the rest of the genre lacks.

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