Dostoevsky’s Ambivalent Reception of a Lutheran Tradition: The Christmas Tree and Christmas Party as a Motif in the Writer’s Stories

This essay is dedicated to F.M. Dostoevsky’s reception of the Lutheran “Christmas tree”, particularly in the short stories “A Christmas Tree and a Wedding” (1848) and “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree” (“The Heavenly Christmas Tree”, 1876). Interpreting these stories in the context of...

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Main Author: Stephan Lipke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2019-03-01
Series:Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал
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Online Access:http://dostmirkult.ru/images/DOST_2019-1-int-1-118-128.pdf