THE THEME OF THE DECLINE OF A NOBLE FAMILY IN M. E. SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN'S NOVEL "THE GOLOVLYOV FAMILY"

The Golovlyov Family reflects the era contemporary to the great Russian satirical writer, in which, as M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin perceived, family ties lose their meaning and significance, human relationships collapse, and are increasingly replaced by spiritual emptiness, hypocrisy, verbosity, deceit, and baseness. The family chronicle of a decaying noble lineage leads the characters to an inevitable tragic finale, from which even a belated realization cannot save them.

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