The Diary of a Superfluous Man
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man (Dnevnik Lishnego Cheloveka (Дневник лишнего человека)) is an 1850 novella by Russian author Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man who has a few days left to live as he recounts incidents of his life. The story has become the archetype for the Russian literary concept of the superfluous man.
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) · A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) · Yakov Pasynkov (1855) · Faust (1855) · Asya (1858) · First Love (1860) · King Lear of the Steppes (1870) · The Song of Triumphant Love (1881) · The Mysterious Tales (1883)
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A Rash Thing to Do (1843) · It Tears Where It is Thin (1847) · Breakfast at the Chief's (1849/56) · A Conversation on the Highway (1850/51) · Lack of Money (1846/52) · A Provincial Lady (1851) · Fortune's Fool (1857/62) · A Month in the Country (1855/72) · An Evening in Sorrento (1882)
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