Dostoievskeian

English

Adjective

Dostoievskeian (comparative more Dostoievskeian, superlative most Dostoievskeian)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1948, D. B. Wyndham Lewis, Four Favourites, London: Evans Brothers Limited, page 112:

     No more extravagantly wayward great lady than Maria del Pílar Teresa Cayetana, thirteenth Duchess of Alba, treads the eighteenth-century stage, and no imperious great lady (her principal enemy being the Queen, and to a lesser extent Godoy) more democratic in her waywardness; for the distinctive mark of Baroquism in the latter half of this century is that curious semi-exhibitionist, semi-expiatory, quasi-Dostoievskeian craving on the nobility’s part to share the companionship, the caprices, and even the costume of the proletariat.

   • 1962, P. C. Bayley, “Stratford 1962”, in The Critical Survey, volume 1, number 1, Berghahn Books, page 17, column 1:

     Donald McWhinnie is unable to resolve these basic difficulties, but with Eric Porter and Irene Worth, excellently backed by the Banquo of Peter Jeffrey, absolutely straight and honest himself yet quickly alert to Macbeth’s deviousness, he gave the audience an enthralling sojourn in the macabre world—at times almost Dostoievskeian—of human greed, fear, crime, remorse and punishment.

   • 1963, The Wiseman Review, volume 237, page 238:

     This liveliness is in large measure due to the impact on a Donegal mind of the big city, with its Dostoievskeian characters and its racial and political problems seen in a new light.