The Diary of a Superfluous Man [SEP] language of work or name
The Diary of a Superfluous Man
The Diary of a Superfluous Man () 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.
External links.
- "The Diary of a Superfluous Man", at Internet Archive (scanned books multiple formats)
his suffering. Along with Bellow's second novel "The Victim", it is considered his "apprentice" work.
Reception.
Some critics, including Edmund Wilson and Kenneth Fearing, deplored the novel's lack of a definite plot, but praised Bellow's depiction of what they saw as the characteristic features of the generation of American intellectuals raised during the Great Depression. "Dangling Man" can be seen as a superfluous man narrative, raising interesting parallels with Turgenev's "The Diary of a Superfluous Man" and