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 Lisa, 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 1860, The Diary of a
Superfluous Man was initially censored by the authorities as some
of its passages were deemed too critical of Russian society. This
volume also includes two other masterly novellas from the same
period, also touching on the theme of disappointed love: Asya and
First Love.
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