The Diary of a Superfluous Man

1850 novella by Ivan Turgenev

The Diary of a Superfluous Man
Author	Ivan Turgenev
Original title	Дневник лишнего человека
Language	Russian
Subject	superfluous man
Genre	novella, epistolary
Set in	Moscow and rural Russia, early 19th century
Publisher	Otechestvennye Zapiski
Publication date	1850
Publication place	Russian Empire
Dewey Decimal	891.733
LC Class	PG3421 .D58
Original text	Дневник лишнего человека at Russian Wikisource
Translation	The Diary of a Superfluous Man at Wikisource

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (Russian: «Дневник лишнего человека», Dnevník líshnego chelovéka) 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, Tchulkaturin, who, though only 31 years old, is dying of an unspecified illness and has only 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.^[1]^[2] It was first published in 1850 in the Saint Petersburg literary magazine Otechestvennye Zapiski.

References

^ Chances, Ellen (2001). "Ch. 10: The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature". In Cornwell, Neil (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature. New York: Routledge. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-415-23366-8.
^ Superfluous man at the Encyclopædia Britannica

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