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ЛИШНИЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК
NPfixed WO in 19th-cent. Russian literature, a character who is unable to apply his talents, who finds himself in a state of discord with the surrounding world etc
superfluous man.
The phrase became current after the publication of Ivan Turgenev's Diary of a Superfluous Man («Дневник лишнего человека»), 1850.
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