Description
A darkly comic portrait of a decaying Russian landowning family, this novel follows the Golovlyovs as greed, hypocrisy, and emotional cruelty hollow out their household from within. Beneath its biting satire lies a powerful examination of serf-owning society, religious pretension, family dynamics, and the corrosive effects of wealth without moral responsibility. With sharp psychological insight and grotesque humor, the narrative exposes the emptiness concealed behind respectable appearances and traces the inexorable collapse of a once-powerful lineage.
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Published Jan 1, 2019
ISBN: 9785171004002
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Details
First Published
1880
Language
rus
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Господа Головлевы by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.