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The Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev

The Diary of a Superfluous Man is an 1850 novella by the 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. It was first published in 1850 in Otechestvennye Zapiski.

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Language

English

Original Language

Russian

Published In

1850

Genre/Category

Fiction Novel

Tags/Keywords

Epistolary Short Works

Author

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collec...

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