Dostoievskyian

English

Adjective

Dostoievskyian (comparative more Dostoievskyian, superlative most Dostoievskyian)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1935, George Seldes, World Panorama, 1918–1935, Blue Ribbon Books, page 137:

     His group, in their Dostoievskyian manner, sang the sad songs of Russia’s sad fate—Lenin once leaped up and cried, “To hell with Fate.”

   • 1972, Romance Notes, volume 14, page 229:

     It would certainly seem that there is some link between the Dostoievskyian buffoon who makes a public confession and Clamence’s self-disclosure in the Mexico-City, and once this is seen, the suggestion that Marmeldov helped Camus to shape Clamence’s manner of speaking gains in plausibility.

   • 1979, Martin Seymour-Smith, An Introduction to Fifty European Novels, Pan Books, page 238:

     At the end he is converted to a vague Dostoievskyian Slavophilism, but he dies before he can accomplish a projected ‘pilgrimage’.