Most badass names in literature

László Krasznahorkai.

>>8195287
David DTF Wallace

>>8195291
Dunno man. It makes me want to go join the gestapo and to do a shakedown on his entire family, and then to send them to the camps despite not finding anything.
>Vladislav the Gorgeous Hillock
I mean: what the fuck?
>>8195287
Theodor von Dostow sounds much better imho. Why did he not like the Germans so much? Can you think of one single German character of his who is not an asshat and a jerk?

I always thought Franz Kafka sounded badass.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

>>8195387
and it's become part of the language. "kafkaesque". i think if your name becomes a word, it's pretty badass. nobody ever says "dostoyevskyesque". or "wallaceesque"

>>8195326
Can you think of a German character in any Russian literature that isn't an asshat and a jerk?

>>8195397
Dostoevskian is a word
A Dostoevskian scandal is a term I've heard before.
Of course it is not nearly as ubiquitous as Kafkaesque.

Hegel

>>8195326
the german race has always been one asshats and jerks

Conrad
Aldous Huxley
Lovecraft

>>8195287
Lautréamont.

Sloterdijk (pronounced slaughter dick)

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the german doctor in the brothers karamazov.

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Neetzsche.

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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon

Duff Wub

>>8195572
It's always a treat when there's a little Lovecraft in a story.

>>8195572
>Conrad
PARTYGLUE

>>8195591
Winrar

Rainer Maria Rilke

Lautréamont

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>>8195644
Where did the ruggles nickname actually come from anyway?

>>8195783
it's his actual middle name

>>8195783
>nickname

kek

>>8195398
Oblomov's german friend is based

>>8195881
shit man now i want to reread oblomov.

Adolf Hitler

>>8195591
>slaughter dick

Yeah, no. It's slow-ter dike if you must. Niet zo interessant doen

>>8195397
>>8195408
Dickensian is also a common term, but you don't see anyone arguing that he's a badass...

>>8195767
he said badass not gay

Basically every Greek name

>>8196320
Except Plato.

Ludvig Wittgenstein
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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Faulkner sounds intense for some reason

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>>8196314
dickens is literally pretty cash

>>8196426
yeah I agree

>>8196262
Yeah maybe in your dirty kraut accent

>>8196347

Platon*

>>8195287
Worst threads on /lit/
This one

Virginia Woolf

>>8195397
>nobody ever says "dostoyevskyesque". or "wallaceesque"
I've used "Pynchonesque" before, albeit ironically

>>8196320
Anaximander is pretty baller

>>8196737
I've actually read "Pynchon-esque" used on the back of a book before. Think it might've been 2666.

Vladimir Nabokov, but only if you pronounce it incorrectly as 'NA-bo-kov' instead of 'na-BOK-off"

>>8196464
Charles Dickens has the most Dickensian name outside of Dickens

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Ben Jonson

>>8196768
I was about to say that I've been pronouncing it wrong all along but then I realized that I've never actually said it out loud because I don't talk to people in the first place.

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>>8196813
>tfw talking to local bookshop owner and i mention the name NA-bo-kov and he immediately corrects it as na-BOK-off

>>8196566
Man hou je bek schei uit met die onzin

Virgil

Björnstjerne Björnson

>>8196868
this

Thrasymachus

>>8195291
It sounds like your typical polish jew name, literally the most uncool type of people.

>>8195783
>nickname

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>implying Jews are uncool

Gee I wonder who's behind this /pol/

Larochefoucauld

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Underrated

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Sounds powerful. When I first heard it I instantly thought of a man standing, back straight, wide shoulders, looking up and slightly off at an angle. Strong jaw jutting out, large brow ridge... his arm crossing his body and making a pointing motion out to the distance.

William Blake - Sounds mysterious. Like something from a ''fever dream''

And as the other anon said: Basically every Greek name.

>>8195881
this

Tolkien

>>8195397
Gosh, now I sorta wish dostoyevskyesque was a word. Good thinking, anon.

>>8198138
tf u tolkien bout

>wanna be a writer
>dont have a badass last, middle or first name

What do? Seriously almost every author has a badass name wtf.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

>>8198244
Get yourself a nom de plume like everyone else.

Every lad with one name tbf

>Racine
>Voltaire
>Balzac

Reverdy, guys.
And Cioran

>>8196773
is it because it's your name?
i know like 3 ben johnson/ jonsons

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Algernon Blackwood.

Giscard d'Estaing

t. Alberto Came Us

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LORD Timothy Dexter

Juan Rulfo

>>8195287
William Faulkner is a nice one, for some reason the surname Faulkner conjures for me feelings of mystery, vagueness and a mystical sort of atmosphere.

>>8195387
Yep.
>>8197430
>Friedrich Nietzsche
Too true, it suits his philosophy very well.

Baruch Spinoza

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Burrito Chaosh

>>8199268
>>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Too true, it suits his philosophy very well.

Man, how does that even work. I'm agreeing with you but I'm just so confused on how does it work. The whole names thing.

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>>8196566
>impliceren dat er geen verschil is tussen duits en nederlands
Sterf, kankeranon

>>8195397
The responses to this post are very wallacesque tbqh senpai

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>>8196916

+1

>>8195397
Shakespearian is even in my browser's dictionary.

Thanks to retards like you "badass" has no meaning anymore. Kill yourself.

>>8199554

Dutch is like drunken German with a hint of retarded English.

>>8196916
>Bear Star Bear Son

easy there Björn

Conn Iggulden, no ifs, ands, or buts

>>8195783
It's his legal middle name

>>8195287
Mac DeMarco

>>8199105
This. Sounds like some dark lord or some shit.

Raymond Carver

>>8197279
It's magyar, you uncultured swine

>>8197296
Keep being a good goy.

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>>8198998
fucking pleb

>>8200034
Early in the morning

>>8196868
also seconding this

Peter Gay. It's not even a pen name.

Milan Kundera

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

WOLFGANG

Voltaire

>>8195412
Under-fucking-rated
This is classic.

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>>8196320
>tfw named alexander
feels pretty good

>>8197430
I thought it was just some cucked Japanese man.

>>8199286
When I become a psychiatrist I'll let you know pal

>>8199286
memes

Cassius is the coolest fucking name that never gets utilized. oc please do not steal

>>8199181
do Americans actually say it like that

>>8206035
Never heard his name spoken just read his name, but in south US, we'd say it al-burt cam-us (not owlbert cah-mus or whatever tf way the brits butcher it)

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>>8197279
>Laszlo Krasnahorkai
>Polish jewish

You wouldn't recognize a golden spoon from dog shit if it was handed to you

>>8195581
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>>8199181

>French name
>Badass

Choose one

From Finland Aleksis Kivi and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

Kivi means 'stone' and Valkeapää means either 'firehead' or 'whitehead', due to the double meaning of the word valkea

Rev.Wilbert Awdrey

>>8206108
>Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
That is pretty badass

>>8196464
Charles Darwin is on the ten pound note now, so Dickens is no longer "cash" ;)

Dante Alighieri

For English writers, can't beat Cynewulf

>>8197296
Found the kike

>>8195326
>Vladislav the Gorgeous Hillock

I don't get it

>>8195287
Gregory Berrycone

>>8213234
Wow he sounds cool please tell me more about him, his struggles and his triumphs and just post the fucking picture

>>8213234
I hate when one of my friends pulls a Greg Berry on me.

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>>8213234
I really love Greg Berrycone absurdist novels, crazy stuff

>>8195287
Adolf Hitler

>>8199181
In my head it's always been CAH-miss. I was so disappointed when I found out i'd been pronouncing it wrong.

Is Ruggles pronounced Roo-gulls or Ruh-gulls

>>8195412
This, there's an eerie simplicity to it, it sounds like a pretty-sounding name for something sinister, like holocaust

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>tfw your name is literally Kukić

>>8195287
sauce on pic?

>>8213877
Pa ubi se onda.

>>8195287

Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy
Asimov
Bukowski
Aurelius
Chrysippus
Epictetus

>>8214135
kek prijatelju