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The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas Ella Okstad And it will reveal aDriven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty year old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his love for Liza, the daughter of a senior civil servant, his rivalry with the dashing Prince N. and his ensuing humiliation. These pages helped establish the archetype