Meaning of Dostoievskyan | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C1]

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“After recording the Dostoievskyan dinner-party at the Metropole Hotel, Moscow, on 1 October and meditating on the effects of Stravinsky’s exile, Craft wrote in his Diary: ‘I am certain that to be recognised and acclaimed as a Russian in Russia, and to be performed there, has meant more to him than anything else in the years I have known him.’”

“Much of Powys’s writing may be seen as an attempt to define this Dostoievskyan “religion”, which is both new and old. It is, says Powys, Christianity; but “a Christianity completely different from what we are accustomed to”.”

“These cases have a Dostoievskyan touch about them. All in all, the twentieth-century torturer can be said to have perfectly adapted to horror.”

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