Dostoevskeyan

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Dostoyevskian.

   The later version of Dostoevskeyan man, unlike the earlier homme absurde projected in the Notes, is no longer the obdurate individualist demanding free choice at whatever cost.

   1972, Modern Occasions, volume 2, page 8

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   Nevertheless in each year from 1923 to 1937 an O’Flaherty book appeared. The novels can be grouped into three kinds – those where Aran, as Nara or Inverara, provides the context; those that read as thrillers in a Dublin setting with Dostoevskeyan overtones, and those that were set at the watersheds of Irish history.

   1985, The London Magazine, page 76

   Whereas the generational sweep and impersonality of The Rainbow are Tolstoyan, Women in Love is highly Dostoevskeyan in the destructive self-consciousness and extreme behaviour of its characters.

   2009, Michael Bell, “19. D. H. Lawrence”, in Adrian Poole, editor, The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 321