Dostoevskan

English

Adjective

Dostoevskan (comparative more Dostoevskan, superlative most Dostoevskan)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1960, The Carleton Miscellany, page 30:

     Thus one may say of a Dostoevskan character that he finds a continuously intimate connection between proper conduct and true virtue – or, more frequently, improper conduct and true vice.

   • 1987, Studies in American Jewish Literature, page 109:

     Initially, he flirts with the cryptic: in the early sixties he claims the existence of “a great and eternal living truth, at once illuminating everything,” which comes forth from “the very center” of those seemingly insignificant Dostoevskan protagonists after whom Joseph (Dangling Man) is fashioned (“Facts” 28).

   • 2009, Declan Lynch, Free Money: The Gambler’s Quest, Transworld Ireland, →ISBN, page 144:

     First, I got the fever – an actual fever, a sickness that almost certainly clouded my judgement for at least seventy-two hours. And it was perhaps heightened by the Dostoevskan fever that grips the soul of the punter when he is forging ahead – ‘gamblers know how a man can sit in the same place for nearly twenty-four hours, playing cards and never turning his eyes to the right or the left…’ that great Russian punter wrote.