Abstract
The article examines the type of a «superfluous person» that appeared in the Russian literature of the first half of the XIX century through the prism of existential philosophy using the example of G. A. Pechorin. The author argues that Pechorin is characterized by some classical existential concepts: alienation is considered in the light of the existential philosophy of J. P. Sartre, self-contradiction – within the category of despair of S. Kierkegaard. It is argued that Pechorin is in a borderline situation, which is presented in the theories of K. Jaspers. The author believes that a superfluous person eventually turned into an existential hero described in the Western European philosophical literature of the twentieth century, since there are rudiments of existentialism in his character, although many of them are still dormant and waiting for the influence of time to become active.
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