Author | Ivan Turgenev |
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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 |
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. 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
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