The Fatalist

Name: The Fatalist
Author: Mikhail Lermontov

by Mikhail Lermontov

Philosophical story questioning fate, free will, and predestination through a gambler's gamble

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Mikhail Lermontov

Russian author and poet whose novel A Hero of Our Time is the first Russian psychological novel and a foundational text of Russian Romanticism. His brooding Byronic hero Pechorin became a defining literary archetype.

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