«Маски» в «Герое нашего времени» М. Ю. Лермонтова(«Masks» in M. Ju. Lermontov’s «A Hero of our Time»)

Abstract

In M. Ju. Lermontov's novel «A Hero of our Time» almost every person is wearing a «mask», trying to conceal his or her real intentions-or, on the contrary, taking advantage of the mask, doing or saying things otherwise condemned by the prevailing social conventions. This paper offers a brief analysis of the phenomenon and its function in the structure of the novel.