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El Raulo
13 years, 2 months ago at Feb 29 15:53 - Who is your favorite book character? and why?
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13 years, 2 months ago at Mar 2 20:37 - This is extremely hard,Raul,to name just one.Pfff,I can't separate one and say "Bam,yes YOU are my favorite.".It would be a huge lie.
But,since you ask I'm thinking Sal Paradise from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road",or Raskolnikov from Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment",or Meursault from Camuss "The Stranger",or Bukowski's semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski from nearly all his books.I don't know how to explain why (and even more in English) but I think it's about their views on life and human relationships,their actions and beliefs.They maybe have shaped myself as I am.
But,since you ask I'm thinking Sal Paradise from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road",or Raskolnikov from Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment",or Meursault from Camuss "The Stranger",or Bukowski's semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski from nearly all his books.I don't know how to explain why (and even more in English) but I think it's about their views on life and human relationships,their actions and beliefs.They maybe have shaped myself as I am.
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10 years, 10 months ago at Jul 1 4:17 - Leopold Bloom in Ulysses, for his ardent humanist outlook on life and his vulgarity and vulnerability, both in equally lovable proportions.
But some of Dostoevsky's characters absolutely fascinate me (it would be extremely difficult to narrow my picks to but one), Humbert Humbert from Lolita both disgusts and massively entertains and fascinates me, as does, though his is more of a comic portrayal of those qualities, Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces, and Quentin Compson from The Sound and the Fury stands as literature's most intense, and Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses is noteworthy, for the same reasons as Quentin is. Also The Judge from Blood Meridian is the perfect literary antagonist.
But some of Dostoevsky's characters absolutely fascinate me (it would be extremely difficult to narrow my picks to but one), Humbert Humbert from Lolita both disgusts and massively entertains and fascinates me, as does, though his is more of a comic portrayal of those qualities, Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces, and Quentin Compson from The Sound and the Fury stands as literature's most intense, and Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses is noteworthy, for the same reasons as Quentin is. Also The Judge from Blood Meridian is the perfect literary antagonist.
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10 years, 10 months ago at Jul 1 5:45 - Jason Compson from The Sound and the Fury springs, an image of bastardry and masked weakness both so fully realized and convincing in ways literally no other character in literary fiction, springs to mind
Gaddis and (as my brother in posting things no one else really cares to read for self-gratification) Dostoevsky both have quite a few deserving of mention. Jack Gibbs (the most endearing depiction of self-loathing) and Ivan Karamazov (simultaneously the most engaging of Dostoevsky's depictions of religious conflict and his funniest), are the two most deserving of mention, respectively.
Gaddis and (as my brother in posting things no one else really cares to read for self-gratification) Dostoevsky both have quite a few deserving of mention. Jack Gibbs (the most endearing depiction of self-loathing) and Ivan Karamazov (simultaneously the most engaging of Dostoevsky's depictions of religious conflict and his funniest), are the two most deserving of mention, respectively.