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The Diary of a Superfluous Man

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
6 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781802561142
Published
18 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • loneliness
  • alienation
  • existential struggles
  • insignificance
  • superfluousness
  • society
  • diary entries
  • inner turmoil
  • reflections
  • isolation

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Description

A man writes himself down as leftover. Hear Turgenev’s Diary of a Superfluous Man unabridged in English: unused talent, unused love, a life that happened beside the main story. Chulkaturin’s entries have the chill of a man watching his own funeral slowly. Loneliness without costume. The unused heart, spoken as a private key Russia later novels never quite escaped. Not a costume tragedy — a confession that stays polite and still wounds. A short Russian listen of being unnecessary, and naming it.

Author

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) grew up on a wealthy Russian estate, studied at the universities of Moscow, St Petersburg, and Berlin, and later settled largely in France. A Sportsman's Sketches revealed the intelligence and dignity of serfs through apparently effortless country scenes; Fathers and Sons caught the rift between liberal parents and their impatient, nihilist heirs.

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