Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: *Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond

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The Diary of a Superfluous Man ''The Diary of a Superfluous Man'' (russian: «Дневник лишнего человека», ''Dnevnik lishnego cheloveka'') is an 1850 novella by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by ...

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Superfluous man __NOTOC__ The superfluous man (russian: лишний человек, ''líshniy chelovék'', "extra person") is an 1840s and 1850s Russian literary concept derived from the Byronic hero. It refers to an individual, perhaps talented and capable, w ...

, a Russian archetype inspired by the above novella

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