Dostoevskeyan

English

Adjective

Dostoevskeyan (comparative more Dostoevskeyan, superlative most Dostoevskeyan)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1972, Modern Occasions, volume 2, page 8:

     The later version of Dostoevskeyan man, unlike the earlier homme absurde projected in the Notes, is no longer the obdurate individualist demanding free choice at whatever cost.

   • 1985, The London Magazine, page 76:

     Nevertheless in each year from 1923 to 1937 an O’Flaherty book appeared. The novels can be grouped into three kinds – those where Aran, as Nara or Inverara, provides the context; those that read as thrillers in a Dublin setting with Dostoevskeyan overtones, and those that were set at the watersheds of Irish history.

   • 2009, Michael Bell, “19. D. H. Lawrence”, in Adrian Poole, editor, The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 321:

     Whereas the generational sweep and impersonality of The Rainbow are Tolstoyan, Women in Love is highly Dostoevskeyan in the destructive self-consciousness and extreme behaviour of its characters.

Anagrams

• Dostoyevskean