/lit/ - Literature

Kitty

>>4291369

OP here. Indeed I like her a lot to. Much more than Anna.

Mary (Mother of Christ)

Sophia Jansen, and indeed all of Rhys's protagonists. Dunno about "greatest" or whatever but I just love Rhys.

Mattie Ross

>Komako
Explain

OP here

>>4291404
I made a review of Snow Country in which I explain why I like her:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A10Q8F3PGHBU7V

>>4291401

I also love this one.

When i was i child, Rebecca from Ivanhoe and Valentine de Villefort from Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.

now...

Lucie Manette from A Tale of Two Cities, (but perhaps only because she reminds me Valentine de Villefort)
Kitty like >>4291369
marj'a from war and peace

I would have other names but I think the type is clear

>>4291434
I enjoyed that review, gave me a better idea of where you were coming from.
I wasn't a big fan of Snow Country, but seeing how you related to it has given me a different perspective.
Anyway, my vote goes to:
>Felicité (A Simple Heart)

Bella Swan

Hera (Iliad)

>>4291463

Thank you for your kind words. That's why I love good literary criticism (I am not saying I am good, juts stating why I have an enormous pleasure in reading books by critics like Frank Kermode, William Empson, Mark Van Doren and Sister Miran Joseph Smith, for example): we don't have enough time to read all the great works of the world lots of times, to read them always with great attention and precision. However, literary critics that are both intelligent and passionate for they subject matter can, in a sense, lend us their eyes and brain, and share with us their findings and conclusions. They spend years analyzing the mechanics and technical aspects behind a major work, and with their help we don't need to spend so much time making the same efforts - we just need to read what these special readers found out thorough their own effort.

Also, there was a speech by Jorge Luis Borges that I never forget. In it he says that, if you read a classic book and did not like it, you may not be still ready for it, but it can also be that you and that specific work were not made for each other. It does not mean that there is something wrong with the book or with you: you just did not born to fall in love. I have this relation with Dom Quixote: I honor and respect Cervantes, but I confess that I simply cant love his book: it was not written for me.

But again, thank you for your words.

Cathrine/Cathy Ames/Kate Albey

The chick from the "Magic Mountain". Oh, how she could make a door slam, the whole world shock with them.

>>4291350

>>4291550
Amazingly written sir!

Oedipa Maas

>>4291394
She may be the greatest woman who ever lived, but I don't think she counts.

>>4291394

Imma let you finish but Judith is one of most amazing characters in that book.