Dostoevskyian

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A form of Dostoyevskian — Of or pertaining to Russian novelist and philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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adjectiveDostoevskyian (comparative more Dostoevskyian, superlative most Dostoevskyian)

comparative more Dostoevskyian · superlative most Dostoevskyian

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Dostoyevskian.

    There is much of the Dostoevskyian Grand Inquisitor here.

    1980, Cedric J. Robinson, “Chapter V. On Anarchism”, in The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, “The Individualists and the Anarcho-Socialists”, page 186
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    Mr. Rimsky invests them with a sort of Dostoevskyian tragic air that belies the author’s characterizations.

    1933, The Book Collector’s Packet, volume 2, page 12, column 2

    This discussion leads us to a Dostoevskyian link between suffering and humanity and man’s dependency on divine law to protect the individual from the nihilistic rejection of the supreme value which provides the necessary injunction against anti-social acts and relinquishment of morality.

    2013, Shahrzad Siassi, Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Routledge, published 2018, →ISBN

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