The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas | Turgenev

Издательство: Alma Classics
Год издания: 2018
ISBN: 9781847497628

Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family`s fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his love for Liza, the daughter of a senior civil servant, his rivalry with the dashing Prince N. and his ensuing humiliation. These pages helped establish the archetype of the ?superfluous man?, a recurring figure in nineteenth-century Russian literature.