Abstract
New Year and Christmas are widely represented in the world literature. This is both a special genre – a touching Christmas story, which is created according to certain canons, and traditional scary stories, the action of which is timed to the magic period of Christmas, and a description of the merry winter holidays in Soviet children’s literature, where the New year replaced the rejected Christmas. But not only the storytellers and romantics have left a description of the holidays they loved since childhood on the pages of their literary works. Poets, satirists, and realists had a hand here — quite a wide range of authors who described both the New Year holiday itself and everything that happens on Christmas. The ceremonies that took place during these holidays have a deep meaning. Therefore, the main purpose of the work is a comparative analysis of the descriptions of the Nativity and the Nativity in the works of Russian writers of the XVIII-XX centuries. The author analyses the works of Gogol, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Starygin, Zaitsev. It has been established that Russian literature actively turned to Christmas and Christmas holidays in the nineteenth century. For example, A.S. Pushkin in Eugene Onegin contrasted Christmas with Christmas. It has been established that Christian motifs dominate heathenism in Gogol’s Christmas tale. In the novel “War and Peace†by L.N. Tolstoy was able to subtly determine the originality of the Christmas mood in the popular understanding. It has been determined that in classical works of Russian literature, Christmas time appears more often than Christmas: the pagan tradition is “one's ownâ€, original, unlike Christian. The atmosphere is transmitted by writers more attractively than the Christmas one.
Highlights
Quite often in classic works of Russian literature of the XVII-XX centuries, one or other holidays are mentioned
In the second half of the XIX century, the genre of the Christmastide story appeared in Russian literature
Summarising all of the above mentioned, it should be noted that Christmastide and Christmas images in Russian literature are a sign that the work was created in a transitional, unstable era
Summary
Quite often in classic works of Russian literature of the XVII-XX centuries, one or other holidays are mentioned. In the Christmas story, on the contrary, the motif of fear is connected with the image of Vakula This is natural: "Seriousness is official, authoritarian, combined with violence, prohibitions, restrictions. The hero of the Christmas story, feels that he is contradicting himself, that is why both God and devil seem terrible to him. The Christmastide of 1806 is marked by the fact that "never before in the Rostovs’ house the love air, the atmosphere of love, did not make themselves felt with such force as on these days of holidays" (Tolstoy, 1984) Both Sonya and Natasha receive an offer of marriage. Nikolay Rostov chose the costume of the old lady, Natasha – the hussar, Sonya – the Circassian All these heroes, having changed their clothes, moved to the opposite sex: the man – to the female, both girls – to the male. Nikolay would not be able to get his mother’s consent to his marriage with Sonya
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