Dostoevskean

— This reference to Christ is typical of Dostoevski; he was, in the most reverent sense of the term, “Christ-intoxicated.” His mind was shaped largely by a single book, the New Testament, and from it he drew his major literary themes and his deepest personal convictions. As a result, the Dostoevskean universe is at once more real and less real than the world which witnesses the daily struggle for “advantage” by both men and nations.