The Christmas Tree And The Wedding by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A sharp, satirical narrative in which an observer recounts a gaudy children’s holiday entertainment and the wedding that follows, using grotesque detail and ironic contrast to expose the vanity, selfishness and moral emptiness of bourgeois society. The festivities and social rituals once charming in childhood are shown to breed calculation, social climbing and commodified relationships in adulthood, leaving the narrator with a bleak, disillusioned view of human motives and the cost of social ambition.
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- Published
- 1848
- Nationality
- Russian
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- Russian
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- A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
- Yolka i svad'ba
- Ёлка и свадьба
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