Ivan Turguenev – The diary of a superfluous man

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