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Dostoievskyian
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en Dostoyevskian.
en World Panorama, 1918–1935 w:George Seldes 1935 Blue Ribbon Books 137 His group, in their Dostoievskyian manner, sang the sad songs of Russia’s sad fate—Lenin once leaped up and cried, “To hell with Fate.”
en Romance Notes 14 1972 229 It would certainly seem that there is some link between the Dostoievskyian buffoon who makes a public confession and Clamence’s self-disclosure in the Mexico-City, and once this is seen, the suggestion that Marmeldov helped Camus to shape Clamence’s manner of speaking gains in plausibility.
en An Introduction to Fifty European Novels w:Martin Seymour-Smith 1979 w:Pan Books 238 At the end he is converted to a vague Dostoievskyian Slavophilism, but he dies before he can accomplish a projected ‘pilgrimage’.