Dostoievskan

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Dostoyevskian.

   Marcel Proust saw Mme de Sévigné’s romanticism, her taste for the bizarre, the picturesque and the hallucinatory—this passage, in particular—as an expression of what he called her “Dostoievskan side.”

   1983, Frances Mossiker, Madame de Sévigné: A Life and Letters, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., →ISBN, page 298

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   Tolstoyan gloom, Dostoievskan horror, and general Russian hopelessness are the natural outcome of the over-intellectualized misery and morbidity of nineteenth-century Russians, but to import this joyless atmosphere into English literature is a tragic affection.

   1921, Homiletic Review, volume 82, page 372, columns 1–2

   Garnett’s monologism is corrected in the translation by R. Pevear and L Volokhonsky (1990), which initiates a second phase in the history of Dostoievskan translation (see France in France 2000, 595–6; Burnett in Classe 2000, 365–71), rather overstatedly linked by Burnett to a reconceptualisation of what language and literature are.

   2011, Robert M. Cummings, “XXV. Translation and cultural history in Great Britain and Ireland”, “189. The translated English novel”, in Harald Kittel, Armin Paul Frank, Norbert Greiner, Theo Hermans, Werner Koller, José Lambert, Fritz Paul, editors, Translation: An International Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1879, column 2