Who is your favorite literary character?

>>7673241
Indubitably the main character of my diary t bh

>>7673248
Really? I hate that fucking faggot.

Good ol Humbert Humbert

>>7673241
William Kohler.

Borges

Raskolnikov and Severian

Raskolnikov

Holden Caulfield, though I have a soft spot for Jay Gatsby

>>7673241
Dr. Benway of Burroughs' stuff. Or maybe Jerry of same.

Alyosha Karamazov

Roger Mexico

>>7673241
John Yossarian. I haven't read Closing Time yet though, so I am nervous.

>>7673241
Pig Bodine desu

Or Hagbard Celine of Illuminatus

>>7673369
pleb x 10^69

>>7673418
Seaman Bodine is kind of a cunt t b h

George Berrycone. Greg is a close second.

holden caulfield because he's intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor

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Stepan "STEVE" Oblonsky

The comfiest character in all of western literature

Ned Stark.

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Benjy Compson: intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.

>>7673241
i dont know if this counts but i would have to say Cheradenine Zakalwe.

Prince Mishkin from The Idiot

>>7673409
where do people get 'john' from
I don't recall anyone calling him John

>>7673289
Not my favorite character, but definitely my favorite narrator.

I'd say Marion Incandenza for my favorite character.

>>7673241
I recommend you to read the red and the black by Stendhal, OP.

>>7673241
jean valjean

>>7673241
The underground man

Hazel Motes

>>7674852
good answer

>>7673241
Zarathustra

Lord Henry obviously

>>7673241
Wendell Carlson

this is from the forward to one of his books, /lit/ can probably relate.

"
Foreword

by Spider Robinson
Books get written for the damndest reasons. Some are written to pay off a
mortgage, some to save the world, some simply for lack of anything better to do.
One of my favorite anecdotes concerns a writer who bet a friend that it was
literally impossible to write a book so B*A*D that no one could be found to
publish it. As the story goes, this writer proceeded to write the worst, most
hackneyed novel of which he was capable-and not only did he succeed in selling
it, the public demanded better than two dozen sequels (I can't tell you his
name: his estate might sue, and I have no documentation. Ask around at any SF
convention; it's a reasonably famous anecdote).
This book, as it happens, was begun for the single purpose of getting me out
of the sewer.
I mean that literally. In 1971, after seven years in college, with that Magic
Piece of Paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get
was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, New York--guarding a hole in
the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American
educational system."

Jesus Christ

The judge, blood meme

Brett, The Sun Also Rises

Soren Kierkegaard

>>7673241
Edmond Dantés
Sunday, from "The Man Who Was Thursday".
Heathcliff

and any number of Shakespeare characters

>>7673456
I thought of him as a whiny faggot who thinks he's above the rest. Care to explain your view?
Agree with the nihilistic part tho

>>7673455

you're really pulling a George Berrycone there

henry chinaski :^)

>>7673895

Seconding this, adding Ivan K. too.

>>7673463

Great choice

>>7673463
love Oblonsky

>>7675110
forgot to add: Ignatius J. Reilly because everything he says had me in stitches, Natasha Rostov because she's so full of life and energy and love for everything and it comes across in everything she says/does and Lizzy Bennet because how can you not love her.

>>7673248
kek

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Gandalf the Grey desu.

Raskolnikov

Boborikine

Lyra Belacqua from His Dark Materials.
Fuck I loved that girl when I first read the books

>>7673241
Sancho Panza.

The Judge and Iago for now

>>7674852
Mine is Enjolras, boom

roger mifflin

Phillip Marlowe

>>7673463
>Steve
It's stiva, faggot
Gr8 choice

>>7675196
>not preferring Gandalf the White
full pleb

Stencil baby

>>7677522
seconded

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>>7675196
what does his ring do again?

Pick any picaresque

>>7673241
Smerdyakov

>>7675043
get memed on sun.

Alyosha

>>7675043
He typed the wrong one. He was thinking of Professor Pangloss, who exemplifies nihilism.

>>7673241
Captain Ahab.

>>7673241
addie bundren

Kiyoaki Matsugae

Ivan Karamazov
Rogózhin
Nastassya Filippovna

>>7675119
Seconding Natasha, my literary waifu

>>7677559
Gandalf the Grey is a much comfier-seeming character than Gandalf the White. Do you think Gandalf the White smoked nearly as much pipe-weed as Gandalf the Grey? Do you think Gandalf the White frolicked with hobbits and dwarves nearly as much as Gandalf the Grey? I think not.

>>7678562
Well yeah but White was more philosophical and had a weird mysticism about him. He's a lot more interesting.

>>7678619
I started rereading Fellowship around a month ago, I'll have go go and finish the whole trilogy again. Haven't read the whole thing for awhile.

Aramis the musketeer

>>7675639
Patrician detected

>>7673248
Post it nigger