Versailles, France
It’s the story of Tchoulkatourine, a man who starts writing his diary two weeks before his sunset. He is one superfluous man. Believing such a state to be a sickness is a comforting thought.
Of course, sometimes, life mistakenly smiles at one. In the form of a woman : Elisabeth Kirilovna, for three weeks only. But there is also one tragedy of life : a human is not conscious of his own life as he lives it, he is not conscious of his time in
an abandoned and dark room where someone brought a candle
The diary of a superfluous man, Tourgueniev