May 9, 2023
A disillusioned individual, often born into wealth and privilege, the superfluous man regards the society around him with boredom, cynicism, and lack of interest, at the same time feeling himself to be morally and intellectually superior.
on 'The Superfluous Man' in Eugene Onegin (1833), Alexander Pushkin taken from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, by James Canton (x)
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