Dostoyevskeyan

English

Adjective

Dostoyevskeyan (comparative more Dostoyevskeyan, superlative most Dostoyevskeyan)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1964, Morris Freedman, Essays in the Modern Drama, Heath, page 57:

     Nor of course can he ever logically be released, for, as he points out, in a mad scene echoing Lear and Dostoyevskeyan tableaux, what father can ever be certain of his child, what father can ever be other than putative, a lament that, horrible as it may suddenly seem, is only of the nature of things (short of chastity belts): as well lament the unrelenting pull of gravity.

   • 1974, Social Work Today: Journal of the British Association of Social Workers, volume 5, page 7, column 1:

     ‘It’s a pity you ever went to the trial’ said Malcolm but Margaret could not agree. ‘I had to suffer it all’ she cried ‘it was the only way. But that Dostoyevskeyan mood is over. I don’t want any more of it, I want it to be finished!

   • 2003, James Joyce Quarterly, volume 40, number 3, University of Tulsa, “204.05-06. the Church sent an embassy”, page 473:

     This remarkable, Dostoyevskeyan passage (continuing to the bottom of SH 206) has no real counterpart elsewhere in Joyce. For one brief time, in this, his most anticlerical book, he takes time to state the Church’s attractions.