Dostoevskan

English Adjective en Dostoyevskian. en The Carleton Miscellany 1960 30 Thus one may say of a Dostoevskan character that he finds a continuously intimate connection between proper conduct and true virtue – or, more frequently, improper conduct and true vice. en Studies in American Jewish Literature 1987 109 Initially, he flirts with the cryptic: in the early sixties he claims the existence of “a great and eternal living truth, at once illuminating everything,” which comes forth from “the very center” of those seemingly insignificant Dostoevskan protagonists after whom Joseph (Dangling Man) is fashioned (“Facts” 28). en Free Money: The Gambler’s Quest w:Declan Lynch 2009 Transworld Ireland 1409081826 144 First, I got the fever – an actual fever, a sickness that almost certainly clouded my judgement for at least seventy-two hours. And it was perhaps heightened by the Dostoevskan fever that grips the soul of the punter when he is forging ahead – ‘gamblers know how a man can sit in the same place for nearly twenty-four hours, playing cards and never turning his eyes to the right or the left…’ that great Russian punter wrote.