/lit/ - Literature

Holden

>>14537388
raskolnikov because he is literally me.

>>14537388
Ignatius based Reilly

>>14537388
The triangle looking fellow of the "For Dummies" books

>>14537388
whoops, also bonus points if you mention which book they're from and why you like them

Falstaff
Hamlet
Iago
Claudius
Polonius
Milton's satan(I like him because he's pathetic)
Knight from canterbury tales
Ishmael
Bartelby
Agamemnon(his antics amuse me)
Gabriel from the dead
God

>>14537388
That ain't literature.

Mine is Prince Myshkin

Sun Wukong, a crackhead immortal tricker archtype monkey, and at the same time guy with braincells in his group
I love how he is still beloved after all these centuries, looking at the youtube comments from Overy Sarcastic Production's videos

>>14537399
Is Holden the last truly iconic character in literature? Or at least the most recent one

>>14537446
>Moomin isn't literature

wut mate

>>14537494
Thought it was a comic book.
If it's a children's book then it's alright

underground man from underground
oskar from the tin drum
humbert from lolita
karl ove from my struggle

>>14537388
Atticus Finch

>>14537388
For me, it's Oblomov (he's also literally me).

Toad of Toad Hall
Ignatius J. Reilly
Jeeves & Wooster
Humbert Humbert
Judge Holden
King David

>>14537463
Boy do I got news for you. There is a Chinese graphic novel called journey to the west by Zheng Jian He and its basically a sequel to the original one. It plays a couple of hears after our team o' heroes bring back the sutra. Chinese manhuas generally look like ass but this one is different. Just amazing in every way.

>>14537714
damn my boi went full Jojo. Thanks anon I'll give it a look!

Any female characters worth a mention?

Tyrone Slothrop
>Paranoiac who was right about everything
Woland and his merry band
>Delight in poking holes in everyone they meet
Ishmael
>The adventurer every man wishes he could be
The nameless narrator from Diary of a Country Priest
>Poor sad young guy genuinely struggling with his faith and trying so hard to be good at what he does that everybody is weirded out and bullies him

>>14538329
For me it's the protagonist of Black Fairy Tale. I love her.

Alexei Kirillow

>>14537388
Robert Jordan.

He is everything I wanted to be

>>14538509
>Woland and his merry band

my nigga. Biggest show stealers in literature

>>14538329
remedios the beauty

Sanics of course

>>14538329
Aqua from Konosuba

Diomedes
Beregond
Severian
Mister Knightley

In no particular chronological order, of course.

>>14537388
Here they are for one and all,
The Moomins are about to call,
Come on and sit down here with me,
They're here for you on your tv,
They are the moomins

>>14537442
Based iago, Ishmael, and God poster.

Henry the waiter (from the Black Widowers mysteries)
Obelix
Merry Brandybuck (wise where Pippin was foolhardy)
Jacob Marley

>>14537399
came here to say this.
Sometimes things are popular for a reason.

>>14537442
>No Raskolnikov
>No Underground Man
Cmon, anon.

>severian the torturer
simply a very complex character with nuance and contradictions, unique flaws(is a gullible autistic retard), but still has an intense amount of drive and is savantlike in his skillset and personality
>doc sportello
I really just find him incredibly charming and funny. Comes off as a hippie dope, which he is in some regards, but knows how to leverage it in his favor. Is shamelessly lame and distinctly weak when contrasted by all of the other hypermasculine characters he's confronted with but he's still able to truck on.
>glanton
Imo the real star of blood meridian. While the kid is undergoing his twisted baptismal journey and judge holden is prancing around like a mystic glanton is encapsulating the violence and depravity blood meridian is associated with. Like watching a bloodthirsty shark ravaging everything in it's path before succumbing to the bloodfrenzy he created.
>>14539115
Based fellow Sev poster

>>14539393
>being this obsessed with dos protags

The Underground Man
Benny Profane
Ishmael
Stephen Dedalus
Leopold Bloom
Funes the Memorious
K.
Don Quijote
Sancho Panza
Socrates

>>14539432
OP asked for /lit/s favourites characters, and those are constantly shilled

>>14537562
Hello anon who's literally me

Lord Henry, from Picture of Dorian Gray

>>14539453
I forgot about Humbert Humbert

>>14538329
Chevette Washington
Orlando
Nastasya Filipovna
Mrs Eszter

>>14537388
My number one favourite has always been Gandalf the Grey.

Julien Sorel
Also that badass bureaucrat in Growth of the Soil, forgot his name but I wish he were my dad.

Jaguar from Time of the Hero

>>14537388
I’m curious about your taste in these nuts

>>14537388
Franz Biberkopf

>>14537388
Pythagoras in Metamorphoses, even though he's a just mouthpiece for Ovid. Because of that, really. "Sunt fruges..." is my internal response when people ask me why I'm vegetarian.

But I don't tend to like literature characters very much. Most of them just feel like tools of the author to me.

Oh, Elizabeth Bennet. Proust's narrator. Holden, of course. Tybalt, for some reason. They feel like people to me.

Begemot from Master and Margarita. I too am an oversized cat so he is basically me.

>>14537388
Arthas

ryan gosling from drive unironically

>>14539115
>chronological order

>>14539751
>Sunt fruges...
What does that mean?

>>14540181
"There are fruits". It's near Pythagoras' exhortation to stop eating meat, and I always founded it funny how direct and plain spoken it is.

>>14537388
Konstantin Levin
>>14538329
Kitty Scherbatsky

>>14537388
Judge from The Blood Meridian

Harry Potter

>>14537388
Candide from Voltaire's Candide. He's hilariously Chadlike but so fucking stupid at the same time. A very Don Quixote type character.

Solid Snake

>>14537388
me from my diary desu

>>14537446
>Moomins >not literature kys nigger

>>14537388
The wandering jew from Canticle for Leibowitz, Lord Sepulchrave and Old Testament God

>>14537446
Kys, nigger

>>14540959
go watch your cartoons kid, the milk is ready

>>14540959
god damn he's really mowing them down, i had no idea they had full autos in moominland

>>14537388
Valuska
Oblomov
Myshkin
Socrates
Kim Carsons
Judge Holden

>>14537388
Hastur

Nero Wolfe

>>14541252
Which one?

>>14541064
>knows only the cartoon and not the books and comics it’s based on
OH NO NO NO

Oblomov
Ignatius
Johan Nagel

>>14541320
All of them. The fact that he's portrayed differently by different authors is what I find the most interesting. We don't know who or what Hastur is. Even in The King in Yellow where he's expanded upon the most, he makes a brief unexplained appearance as the ghost of a dead falconer. The whole thing is pretty meta when you think about it, the actual King in Yellow character never makes an appearance, he only exists in the play titled The King in Yellow. A story within a story, so that it could be said, in the setting of the book, Hastur is a purely fictional character, as is Cassilda and the lost city of Carcosa. The only thing real about the play is the effect it has on those who read it. My take on it is that Hastur is some kind of constantly evolving thought parasite, and not an actual physical entity.That's why, in meta logic, he is different in each author's interpretation. He is not a character in a story but an ever-changing idea that exists outside of fiction. In a weird sort of way, he is a living, breathing meme.

>>14541540
>thinks bragging about his cartoons being based on comic books or children's books will make him look less like a silly man child

cry lil baby

>>14541670
Thank you for the in depth answer anon

>>14537509
It kinda is but not really, its like le petit prince

>>14542187
Snufkin is so cool holy shit
Has there ever been a better character to come out of a northern country?

>>14537534
okay commie

>>14537388
Colonel Pyat from Byzantium Endures is a great character, he's also a massive, massive cunt. A degenerate, evil arsehole - but also a great character.

>>14537388
Jesus Christ

Answer Bundren
A Mississippi sharecropper who believes if he swears he might die and lives his life accordingly

>>14542768
Anse Bundren
Cocksucking auto correct

>>14537388
Prufrock

Darl from As I Lay Dying

>>14541205
>Socrates
Why this trigger me

>>14537494
Probably Yossarian

>>14538694
A badass who was aware of his emotions and philosophies.a rare type of character

Odysseus. not my fave ever, but by far my favourite ancient hero

Roony from V. Stencil too, but Roony really resonated with me.

Diomedes, Milon's Satan, the consul, stephen dedalus

>>14540947
>Lord Sepulchrave
based Gormenghast reference

Stoner

Good Soldier Svejk

Prince Andrei Bolkhonsky

>>14537582
>Toad of Toad Hall

>>14537388
Patroclus

>>14537582
>Toad of Toad Hall
Based and willowpilled

Dmitri Karamazov
Paul Muad'dib

When it comes to female characters I can't think of many but the biologist from annihilation

>>14546337
never heard this before, why?