Dostoevskean

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Dostoyevskian.

   Perhaps there was somewhere here—certainly there was later—a dark, even sinister side when Dostoevskean “demons” took possession.

   1983, Encounter, page 18, column 1

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   This reference to Christ is typical of Dostoevski; he was, in the most reverent sense of the term, “Christ-intoxicated.” His mind was shaped largely by a single book, the New Testament, and from it he drew his major literary themes and his deepest personal convictions. As a result, the Dostoevskean universe is at once more real and less real than the world which witnesses the daily struggle for “advantage” by both men and nations.

   1956, Commonweal, volume 64, page 126, column 1

   Having succeeded in escaping from Ireland, after the assassination, McDara is haunted, in a Dostoevskean mode, by his own conscience. He is tortured while awake and asleep by a vision of the scene of assassination.

   1996, Hedda Friberg, An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O’Flaherty’s Novels, Uppsala University, →ISBN, page 115