The Diary of a Superfluous Man

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (Dnevnik Lishnego Cheloveka (Дневник лишнего человека)) 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.

External links

The Diary of a Superfluous Man, at Internet Archive (scanned books multiple formats)
The Diary of a Superfluous Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Works by Ivan Turgenev

Novels	Rudin (1857) Home of the Gentry (1859) On the Eve (1860) Fathers and Sons (1862) Smoke (1867) Torrents of Spring (1872) Virgin Soil (1877)

Short fiction	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)

Plays	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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