Dostoievskean

English Adjective en Dostoyevskian. en Saturday Review of Literature 26 1943 42 2 The actions of the Russians are little credible enough. But compared with Mr. Hughes ideas of the Nazi army, his Russians are Dostoievskean. One cannot but wish the real Nazi army were anything like what he imagines it to be. en Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist Michael Millgate 1971 w:Random House 0394461215 319 For all their moral and intellectual anxieties, Jude and Sue give an impression of almost Dostoievskean simplicity and innocence, and their childlikeness, specifically reflected in Hardy’s abandoned title, “The Simpletons”, is emphasised throughout. en Recollections of the Powys Brothers: Llewelyn, Theodore, and John Cowper Belinda Humfrey 1980 w:Peter Owen Publishers 150 This was a thoughtful and critical attitude, and also, basically, a sombre one beside which John Cowper’s seemed to be that of an inspired idiot and innocent of the Dostoievskean kind; and Llewelyn’s the posture of an attitudinizing romantic. en Reference Guide to Short Fiction 1994 St. James Press 1558623345 468 1 In the Esmé story, for instance, Salinger’s surest masterpiece, the brilliant manipulation of a familiar crisis—devastated soldier finds an escape from his Dostoievskean hell through the kindness of a precocious girl—climaxes in a moment of karma that sidesteps the darker issue of the protagonist’s patent narcissistic fixation. Anagrams en adeeiknoosstv Dostoevskeian