Hero of our time

So many literary heroes have lost their relevance over the last two centuries and have been consigned to book oblivion, but the "superfluous man" Pechorin, a cold cynic who does not believe in high ideals, who lives "not with his heart, but with his head", a selfish spendthrift who abandons women and fearlessly tests his fate, is still more alive than all the living. This is a contradictory and ambiguous personality, because Lermontov wrote the first psychological novel in Russian prose. Try to figure it out impartially - do you agree with the critics who wrote that such a depraved hero is an insult to Russia, or are you on the side of Belinsky, who is sure that Lermontov showed the tragedy of educated people of that (and maybe our?) time?