Dostoevskeyan

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“The later version of Dostoevskeyan man, unlike the earlier homme absurde projected in the Notes, is no longer the obdurate individualist demanding free choice at whatever cost⟳.”

“Nevertheless in each year from 1923 to 1937 an O’Flaherty book appeared. The novels can be grouped into three kinds – those where Aran, as Nara or Inverara, provides the context; those that read⟳ as thrillers in a Dublin setting with Dostoevskeyan overtones, and those that were set⟳ at the watersheds of Irish history.”

“Whereas the generational sweep⟳ and impersonality of The Rainbow are Tolstoyan, Women in Love⟳ is highly Dostoevskeyan in the destructive self-consciousness and extreme behaviour of its characters.”

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