Meaning of Dostoyevskean | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“Pinkie is Greene’s most Dostoyevskean character. Like several characters in The Possessed, he revolts dramatically against God and is obsessed with suicide.”

“What is interesting is his emphasis on the Dostoyevskean nature of the group.”

“Second, and more compelling, are practical concerns, chief among them that an over-strict concern for the purity of one’s associates would lead to a muddled, Dostoyevskean responsibility for the sins of the world.”

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