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. First published in 1850, 'The Diary of a Superfluous Man' was initially censored by the authorities, as some of its passages were deemed too critical of Russian
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas
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Описание и характеристики
- Тип обложки Мягкий переплёт
- Год издания 2019
- Количество страниц 205
- Издательство Alma Books
- Автор Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
- Вес 209
- Размер 1.6x12.6x19.7
- ID товара 2730191
- ISBN 978-1-84-749762-8, 978-1-84749-762-8