Meaning of Dostoevskeian | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“From these and like studies there emerges a picture of the human mind as a kind of dark Dostoevskeian cavern in whose labyrinthine gloom strange and irrational visions brood.”

“This Dostoevskeian solution may work for the poem, but it did not work for the Blakes, at least not at the time that ‘William Bond’ was written, c. 1804, as is shown by the struggles between Los and Enitharmon and by the torments of Albion.”

“In working out Aristotle’s view, it may help to keep in mind some of its rivals. We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst. There is the pursuer of disvalue as such, like Hannibal Lecter or Milton’s Satan; the wanton or brutish slave to low desires; the Dostoevskeian outlaw, committer of some unforgiveable crime; and the amoral egoist or sociopath who greets all moral considerations with a shrug.”

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