Dostoievskian

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

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Meanings

adjectiveDostoievskian (comparative more Dostoievskian, superlative most Dostoievskian)

comparative more Dostoievskian · superlative most Dostoievskian

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Dostoyevskian.

    Among the former was a wholly invented, Dostoievskian police “reenactment” scene for which I saw no necessity in a script that was already overlong.

    1971, New Letters, page 75
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    Today its Dostoievskian perspective, for a variety of reasons, is altogether lacking; it is now a quality exposing its truest expression at picnics, the theatre, and conventions of political parties; that is to say, it is no longer serious excepting as defining the appreciation of an esthetic spectacle.

    1947, Chicago Review, University of Chicago Press, page 20

    Overall it could be observed that there was a positive evolution, in the sense that if in the first decade Dostoyevsky’s novels were not even published and all exegetical texts were forbidden, in the middle of the period all of Dostoyevsky’s novels were published and towards the end of the communist regime we can note several valuable contributions to Dostoievskian criticism. The interpretative Dostoievskian texts became more and more professional, being approached with more subtle and profound themes, and the translations were increasingly better.

    2017, Mihai Vacariu, “Section IV. Cultural Triggers of Reception”, “Chapter Thirteen. Mechanisms of Censorship and the Censorship of Dostoevsky’s Works under Communism: An Interpretative Analysis”, in Corina Daba-Buzoianu, Monica Bîră, Alina Duduciuc, George Tudorie, editors, Exploring Communication through Qualitative Research, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 281
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