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Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev
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While a man is living he is not conscious of his own life; it becomes audible to him, like a sound, after the lapse of time.
He is a young man on the verge of death and since he is very soon to die he decides to write the story of his life, not for others but for himself.
What manner of a man is he really?
Throughout my whole life I was constantly finding my place taken, perhaps because I did not look for my place where I should have done.
Written in the form of a diary, the story is about the 30 year old Chulkaturin’s reflections about his own life, his futile love for a girl who is in love with someone else and his impending death.
How good to be at rest! Yes, it is good, good to be rid, at last, of the wearing sense of life, of the persistent, restless consciousness of existence!
He is a young man on the verge of death and since he is very soon to die he decides to write the story of his life, not for others but for himself.
What manner of a man is he really?
Throughout my whole life I was constantly finding my place taken, perhaps because I did not look for my place where I should have done.
Written in the form of a diary, the story is about the 30 year old Chulkaturin’s reflections about his own life, his futile love for a girl who is in love with someone else and his impending death.
How good to be at rest! Yes, it is good, good to be rid, at last, of the wearing sense of life, of the persistent, restless consciousness of existence!