The Diary of a Superfluous Man
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
|---|---|
| Original title | Дневник лишнего человека |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Language | Russian |
| Subject | superfluous man |
| Genre | novella, epistolary |
| Set in | Moscow and rural Russia, early 19th century |
| Publisher | Otechestvennye Zapiski |
Publication date | 1850 |
| 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», 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.
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
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