Dostoyevskan

English

Adjective

Dostoyevskan (comparative more Dostoyevskan, superlative most Dostoyevskan)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1942, Modern Music: A Quarterly Review, page 124, column 2:

     Like the Dostoyevskan criminal who seeks a victim to concretize a pre-existent sense of guilt, the authors have perhaps invoked just such a student to personify the primitive and conventional lines which had already pre-determined their method.

   • 1974, The Jewish Quarterly, page 19, column 2:

     At the same time, inside the Soviet Union the “anti-Zionist” campaigns since the Six Day War have created conditions allowing not only the publication of Kychko’s Judaism and Zionism, the principal theme of which is that the Jews are aiming to dominate the world, but of the two obscene novels by Ivan Shevtsov, one of the leaders of the Pochva movement, who see Russia’s future in a kind of Dostoyevskan rejection of Western values and return to Russian blood and soil.

   • 2008, Paul Simpson, “Gambling”, in Movie Lists, Profile Books, →ISBN, “3. California Split”, page 132, column 1:

     Altman, a self-confessed recovered gambler, tracks Elliott Gould and George Segal into a world of obsessive gambling, makes us share their highs and lows, and explores the nature of their addiction in a Dostoyevskan comedy in which the big score is meaningless.

Anagrams

• Dostoevskyan