Download or read book The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Turgenev published Diary of a Superfluous Man in 1850, he created one of the first literary portraits of the alienated man. Turgenev once said that there was a great deal of himself in the unsuccessful lovers who appear in his fiction. This failure, along with painful self-consciousness, is a central fact for the ailing Chulkaturin in this melancholy tale. As he reflects on his life, he tells the story of Liza, whom he loved, and a prince, whom she loved instead, and the curious turns all their lives took.