Let us now profile superfluous men.

They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?

Irani is one more superfluous man, an emigre who can find no culture, no environment, to fit into.

The spy: the story of a superfluous man.

Now, tell me, am I not a superfluous man?

The story has become the archetype for the Russian literary concept of the superfluous man.

I had these years of feeling the superfluous man, like Oblomov.

Lyle Stevick is a superfluous man.

The poem, written in 1844, was dealing with the popular issue of a "superfluous man" of 1840s.

Part two introduces the type of the "superfluous man" in the person of Beltov.