Dostoievskyan

English

Adjective

Dostoievskyan (comparative more Dostoievskyan, superlative most Dostoievskyan)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1966, Eric Walter White, “Part One: The Man”, “10. The Return of the Native (1962)”, in Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, University of California Press, published 1972, →ISBN, page 124:

     After recording the Dostoievskyan dinner-party at the Metropole Hotel, Moscow, on 1 October and meditating on the effects of Stravinsky’s exile, Craft wrote in his Diary: ‘I am certain that to be recognised and acclaimed as a Russian in Russia, and to be performed there, has meant more to him than anything else in the years I have known him.’

   • 1977, “John Cowper Powys and Religion: Dostoievsky as the Type of the Prophetic Artist”, in The Powys Review, page 21, column 1:

     Much of Powys’s writing may be seen as an attempt to define this Dostoievskyan “religion”, which is both new and old. It is, says Powys, Christianity; but “a Christianity completely different from what we are accustomed to”.

   • 2006, Carmen Borbély, transl., Panopticon: Political Torture in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Mentalities, Romanian Cultural Institute, translation of original by Ruxandra Cesereanu, →ISBN, page 95:

     These cases have a Dostoievskyan touch about them. All in all, the twentieth-century torturer can be said to have perfectly adapted to horror.

Anagrams

• Dostoevskyian, Dostoyevskian