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Dosto(y)evskian, a.|dɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪən, dɒstəʊˈ(j)ɛfskɪən|
Also Dostoievskian.
[f. the name of Feodor Michaelovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist.]
Of, or characteristic of, Dostoevsky or his works.
1925Sat. Rev. Lit. 12 Dec. 404 The Dostoievskian emphasis upon purification through suffering. 1929London Aphrodite IV. 316 We are forced back into intellectual vicious-circles of self-scorn, and that is too dostoevskian. 1931S. Beckett Proust 62 A fine Dostoievskian contempt for the vulgarity of a plausible concatenation. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment xv. 170 The Götterdämmerung of British rule in the Holy Land was not in the Wagnerian, but rather in the Dostoievskian style. 1959Times 21 Mar. 9/5 The Dostoyevskian appreciation of the spark of the divine in every human soul. 1961Times 30 Mar. 15/2 Jesus is shown as a despised Dostoevskian epileptic. |