Dostoevskean

English

Adjective

Dostoevskean (comparative more Dostoevskean, superlative most Dostoevskean)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1956, Commonweal, volume 64, page 126, column 1:

     This reference to Christ is typical of Dostoevski; he was, in the most reverent sense of the term, “Christ-intoxicated.” His mind was shaped largely by a single book, the New Testament, and from it he drew his major literary themes and his deepest personal convictions. As a result, the Dostoevskean universe is at once more real and less real than the world which witnesses the daily struggle for “advantage” by both men and nations.

   • 1983, Encounter, page 18, column 1:

     Perhaps there was somewhere here—certainly there was later—a dark, even sinister side when Dostoevskean “demons” took possession.

   • 1996, Hedda Friberg, An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O’Flaherty’s Novels, Uppsala University, →ISBN, page 115:

     Having succeeded in escaping from Ireland, after the assassination, McDara is haunted, in a Dostoevskean mode, by his own conscience. He is tortured while awake and asleep by a vision of the scene of assassination.