The Diary of a Superfluous Man

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (Russian: «Дневник лишнего человека», Dnevnik lishnego cheloveka) 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.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man
AuthorIvan Turgenev
Original titleДневник лишнего человека
CountryRussian Empire
LanguageRussian
Subjectsuperfluous man
Genrenovella, epistolary
Set inMoscow and rural Russia, early 19th century
PublisherOtechestvennye Zapiski
Publication date
1850
891.733
LC ClassPG3421 .D58
Original text
Дневник лишнего человека at Russian Wikisource
TranslationThe Diary of a Superfluous Man at Wikisource
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