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Dostoyevskian

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Dos·to·yev·sky or Dos·to·ev·ski  (dst-yfsk, -toi-, ds-), Feodor Mikhailovich 1821-1881.
Russian writer whose works combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight. His four great novels are Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-1869), The Possessed (1871), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880).

Dosto·yevski·an adj.
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Adj.1.Dostoyevskian - of or relating to or in the style of Feodor Dostoevski


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Years earlier Whittaker Chambers, whom Trilling had known when they were undergraduates in the 1920s, had sat on a bench in that peaceful quadrangle and tried to decide whether he should join the Communist Party or commit suicide--a Dostoyevskian moment.
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Divergent in vision, they nevertheless share a propensity for the long take and tableau structure; a fondness for desolate landscapes and haunted, life-battered faces; and a Dostoyevskian sense of existence as hell.
 
 
 
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