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Dostoevskian

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prop. adj.1.of or pertaining to Fyodor Dostoevski.
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Adj.1.Dostoevskian - of or relating to or in the style of Feodor Dostoevski


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But just as the novel--in one of its strongest Dostoevskian modes--evokes this strange Doppelganger, with the Nazis' genocidal impulse partly explained by their awareness of the mirror-image strength they need to destroy (Hitler is twice imagined in a Rabbinic prayer shawl), it strangely hedges its bets when it comes to Christian responses to Hitler.
If all his paintings perished tomorrow he would survive through the long series of letters he wrote to his brother Theo — the richest literary work ever penned by an artist, a Dostoevskian novel of his emotional life in which he broods on the connection between art and madness.
This is the essence of Dostoevskian triangulation that Girard calls 'metaphysical desire'.
 
 
 
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