Meaning of Dostoievskyian | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“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.””

“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.”

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

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