Superfluous Men: A Grand Russian Tradition Laevsky’s Zeitgeist—Selection from Anton Chekhov’s The Duel. In the Beginning, Lord Byron created Cain—Monologue from Lord Byron’s play, Cain. The Rake’s Progress—Selection from Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of our Time. Ivan Turgenev’s names the leitmotiv—Selection from Turgenev’s Diary of a Superfluous Man. Oblomovismi—Selection from Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov. 2. Reading I: “The Queen of Spades” by Alexander Pushkin Illustration: “The Tavern Scene” by William Hogarth (1697–1764). 3. Von Koren, Superman Von Koren thins the herd … —Selection from Anton Chekhov’s The Duel. The Survival of the Fittest—Selection from Herbert Spencer’s The Principles of Ethics. Give them an inch … —Selection from Anton Chekhov’s The Duel The Savagery of the Unfurled Macaque – Selection from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. 4. Reading II: Chapter VI from The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Illustration: Cain Leadeth Abel to Death by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836–1902) 5.
