The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories

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The Diary Of A Superfluous Man and Other Storiesby Ivan Sergeyevich TurgenevThe Diary of a Superfluous Man is an 1850 novella by 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.