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Books Like Eugene Onegin
Best books to read after Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
If Pushkin's founding novel in verse captivated you, these picks trace the superfluous man through Russian literature, from Lermontov and Turgenev to Chekhov and Dostoevsky — the tradition Onegin began.
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Buy on AmazonA Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
Pechorin — the second superfluous man, sharper and more modern than Onegin, in the Caucasus.
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The Captain's Daughter
by Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin's historical novel — Pugachev's rebellion seen through a young officer who has none of Onegin's ennui.
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
Bazarov — the third generation, the superfluous man who has become a nihilist rejecting everything Onegin merely disdained.
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Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
The superfluous man taken to his logical extreme — Oblomov, who can barely rise from his sofa.
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's furious answer — the underground man who refuses to be reduced to a superfluous man but is one anyway.
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Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
Vanya — Chekhov's superfluous man on stage, his life wasted in service to a fraud.
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The Tales of Belkin
by Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin's five prose tales — the most economical and perfect short fiction in Russian literature.
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Rudin
by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev's first novel — another eloquent, passionless man whose words outrun his deeds.
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