Meaning of Dostoievskan | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“Tolstoyan gloom, Dostoievskan horror, and general Russian hopelessness are the natural outcome of the over-intellectualized misery and morbidity of nineteenth-century Russians, but to import this joyless atmosphere into English literature is a tragic affection.”

“Marcel Proust saw⟳ Mme de Sévigné’s romanticism, her taste⟳ for the bizarre, the picturesque and the hallucinatory—this passage, in particular—as an expression of what he called her “Dostoievskan side.””

“Garnett’s monologism is corrected in the translation by R. Pevear and L Volokhonsky (1990), which initiates a second phase in the history of Dostoievskan translation (see⟳ France in France 2000, 595–6; Burnett in Classe 2000, 365–71), rather overstatedly linked by Burnett to a reconceptualisation of what language and literature are.”

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