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lydiardbell t1_j1bc0ux wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:11 AM

Reply to comment by v-pascan in Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is a great book but it feels somewhat lazy by [deleted]

It's the "superfluous man" novel. Probably the most famous example is Eugene Onegin, but other well-known books are A Hero of Our Time and Diary of a Superfluous Man.