/lit/ - Literature

So what you’re saying is that you’re a retired Chad

>>12507943
Bump for Andrei

>>12507943
Prince Andrei.

The underground man and Samwise

>>12507943
>What are your favorite characters in literature or those who resonate the most with you?
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Heathcliff

>>12507943
Rodya from C&P.

ryder from the unconsoled
arkady from fathers and sons
skylark from skylark

>>12507943
unironically Benjy from TSATF

Emma Woodhouse

>>12507943
Sydney Carter (A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens)
Shmuel Ash (Judas, Amos Oz)

Robert Walser, from any novel or short story by Robert Walser.

>>12508857
The drooling retard? Why?

>>12507943
Patrick Bateman unsarcastically without all the murders hes really relatable

>>12509024
Sounds like you dint understand the novel, because Benjy is literally Jesus

Andrei was a faggot

>>12510125
No. He was based. Fuck you.

>>12507943
I am very fond of Hans, and from what I've read about Ulrich, I may like him too. Is it true that he fantasizes about pumping his seed into Agathe's womb via her hairy pussy, while biting the sensitive flesh of her neck, but settles for some sort of mystical union in the end? It is all rather curious.

>>12510203
Or how about fuck you. What the fuck makes you think you can go around swearing at people on the internet? Who the FUCK do you think you are? Think you're some big shot. Let's hear your accomplishments. List them, go ahead. What are the odds you're a worthless nobody who can't even make a success of themselves in the fucking first world. Ugly wanker. Fucking dumb piece of shit.

>>12507943

Zorba, from Zorba the Greek
William Shakespeare, from Nothing Like the Sun
Philip Marlowe

>>12510436
I had a professor once who endlessly lauded Zorba the Greek. Even often quoted it in class with "Boss, Boss something something Boss"

Is it worth reading even if I don't really care much about Christianity (which is what I presume the book covers)

>>12510420

>>12510420
K.

>>12510456
>Is it worth reading even if I don't really care much about Christianity (which is what I presume the book covers)

Yes. The character of Zorba is one of the greatest I have ever encountered. He is of that class of earthy characters like Falstaff, Sancho Panza, The Wife of Bath and Flashman. In my opininon he is superior to Falstaff. Kazantzakis is nowhere near as good as Shakespeare, but this one character is a masterpiece.

The problem with the novel is mostly the frailty of it’s female characters. They are all caricatures. Kazantzakis had some sort of deep misogynistic feelings, and he simply fails to use empathy to really flesh out his girls and his women.

But Zorba is a wonder of the world. And the movie is also great. Anthony Quin is perfect as Zorbas.

As for religion, Zorba mostly mocks it and calls prists greasy wolfs and things like that.

>>12507943
Emma Bovary
Quentin Compson
Hamlet (sort of, the older I get the less I understand him)
Gustav Aschenbach
Lev from OPs pic related
Ivan and Alexei Karamazov
The Underground Man
Darl Bundren
Sarty Snopes
Karl Ove
Mercutio (mein nigger)
The narrator from Submission
Patrolochus
Hector
Achilles (even though he’s a shithead)
Ishmael

idk the more i lost the more i feel like a pleb. I will say there are cery few narrators who I dont like. Im a sucker like that.

Andrei and his sister, Don Quixote, Faust, Sand dan Glokta, Copperfield’s aunt

>>12507943
Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin from AK

>>12508394
BASED

I didn’t get Andrew.

He hated his life and wanted to be Napoleon or a hero, then he gets wrecked at Austerlitz and rejects his previous ambition but doesn’t really do much of anything. He’s still a dick and wants to ditch Natasha. Then on his deathbed he’s nice to her suddenly. How can you relate to this?

At least Pierre’s arc was good as he went from an annoying pink haired soi boy to a normal dad.

>>12511825
I memorized lines of Hamlet when I was an edgy 17 year old... and I still don't regret it

>I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise. Indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me but a sterile promontory... This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeareth no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither.

>>12511825
>>12508394
FUCKING BASED AS FUCK HAMLET CREW

he is the greatest protagonist of all time

>>12511867
>What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

my favorite part

>>12511867
In other words you watched Withnail and I twenty times

>>12507943
Squire Western (Tom Jones)

The Underground Man hit closer to home than anything else I've ever read

>>12511842
>How can you relate to this?
By knowing what it feels to get betrayed by the same person who gave you hope again after you had lost it.

>The writer from Hunger
>Raskolnikov
>The Creature from Frankenstein

No, I'm not trying to be edgy.

Robert Kohn (The Sun Also Rises)