Sentence examples for superfluous man from inspiring English sources

Superfluous man.

But superfluous, man.

Turgenev called Ivanov a "superfluous man".

Lerner nicely combines the tradition of the Superfluous Man with that of the flâneur.

He is an example of the character type known in Russian literature as the superfluous man.

Onegin is the original superfluous man, a character type common in 19th-century Russian literature.

Let us now profile superfluous men.

They became — gentle, alcoholic Ogarev for a time was a perfect specimen — "superfluous men".

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, superfluous men continued to dominate Russian novels and plays.

Evgeny Onegin, the foundational Russian novel-in-verse about superfluous men, unrequited love and duels?

Sebald's prose is permanently conscious of the distance between self and surroundings: he is quintessentially one of Thomas's "superfluous men".