The Diary of a Superfluous Man References The Diary of a Superfluous Man work by Turgenev Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: Ivan Turgenev/ Early life and worksThe most famous was âThe Diary of a Superfluous Manâ (1850), which supplied the epithet âsuperfluous manâ for so many similar weak-willed intellectual protagonists in Turgenevâs work as well as in Russian literature generally. Read MoreThe most famous was âThe Diary of a Superfluous Manâ (1850), which supplied the epithet âsuperfluous manâ for so many similar weak-willed intellectual protagonists in Turgenevâs work as well as in Russian literature generally. Read More