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Ishmael (Moby Dick)
Alyosha Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov)
Sancho Panza (Don Quixote)
Edward Bast (JR)

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Yeshua ben Yosef (the bible)

>> No.15821074

Odysseus
Pat Bateman
Ignatius J. Reilly

>> No.15821091

>>15821058
Gene Harrogate (the moonlight melonmounter)

>> No.15821110

Virgil (Divine Comedy)
Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)
Stephen Dedalus (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses)

>> No.15821266

Seconding Ishmael, but Queequeg is also great
Quoyle (The Shipping News)
Ivan Denisovich
Count Vronsky

>>15821074
>Ignatius J. Reilly
why?

>> No.15821497

>>15821058
Raskolnikov
Polonius
Daniel Quinn

>> No.15821525

Julien Sorel
Ursula Brangwen
Billy Parham

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Pechorin

>> No.15821579

>>15821058
Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)
Hal Incandenza (Infinite Jest)
Behemoth (Master and Margarita)

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>>15821091
Based

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Me on the right

>> No.15821624

>>15821058
The underground man, I had almost forgotten he was to be the same man from first-reading. A completely sympathetic character, which I sympathised with.

>> No.15821627

>>15821593
You are an entp aren't you?

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Robert from Moberg's The Emigrants series
Glanton and the kid from Blood Meridian
Tyko Glas from Doktor Glas
Captain Ahab himself ofc(moby dick)

>> No.15821645

Niels Lyhne

>> No.15821656

Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (The Idiot)
Sir Lancelot of the Lake (Le Morte Darthur)
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky (War and Peace)
Uncle Toby (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)

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>>15821627

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Bill

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>>15821666
Devilish trips.

>> No.15821690

Des Esseintes (Againt Nature)
Georges Duroy (Bel-Ami)
Papa Goriot (Papa Goriot)
Humbaba (Gilgamesh)
Hyperion (Hyperion)
Vardaman Bundren (As I lay dying)

>> No.15821691

Slim (Of Mice and Men)
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire)
O'Brien (1984)
Antonio (Merchant of Venice)
Mark Antony (Julius Caesar)

>> No.15821707

Professor Challenger (The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle)
>"It proves," he roared, with a sudden blast of fury, "that you are the damnedest imposter in London — a vile, crawling journalist, who has no more science than he has decency in his composition!"

Caddy Compson (The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner)
>I saw them. Then I saw Caddy, with flowers in her hair, and a long veil like shining wind. Caddy Caddy

Imogen (Cymbeline, William Shakespeare)
>...Look here, love;
>This diamond was my mother's: take it, heart;
>But keep it till you woo another wife,
>When Imogen is dead.

Toad (The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame)
>"— and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em!" cried the Toad in ecstasy, running round and round the room, and jumping over the chairs.

>> No.15821785

Leo Naphta (Der Zauberberg)

>> No.15821790

holden awesomefield

>> No.15821850

Arturo Belano

>> No.15822078

Oba Yozo (No Longer Human)
Cincinnatus (Invitation to a Beheading)
Clarel (Clarel)

>> No.15822137

>>15821058
Lord Henry Wotton (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

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Merlin

>> No.15822280

Svejk

>> No.15822352

>>15821110
>Virgil
nice choice

I'll probably go with Virgil too

>> No.15822391

Madea (Argonautica)
Nestor and Diomedes (Illiad)
Sam Hamilton and Lee (East of Eden)
Lacey Rawlins (Pretty Horses)
Prince Robot (Saga series)

>> No.15822404

>>15821691
>Mark Antony (Julius Caesar)
>fiction

>> No.15822975

Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov (God Sees the Truth but Waits)
A very old man with enormous wings (A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings)
Onodera Punpun (Oyasumi Punpun)
The little prince (The Little Prince)
Amir (The Kite Runner)

Is there fiction out there that handles cuisine?

>> No.15822982

>>15821656
Why myshkin?

>> No.15823419

>>15822982
He has a childlike honesty and innocence that is maintained in spite of all opposition until he is finally plunged into insanity.

>> No.15823657

José Arcadio Buendía (Houndred years of Solitude).
Francisco Quijano, Don Quijote de la la Mancha (Íbidem).
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Ródion Románovich Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)
Fiódor Pavlóvich Karamazov (Karamazov Brothers).
OP (My diary desu).

>> No.15823700

>>15821058
how common is Alyosha as a russian name?
Leodor Tolstoyevski has at least one character named Alyosha in the 3 books i've read from him

>> No.15823718

>>15821690
>Des Esseintes
That's a pretty good choice

>> No.15824006

Hal Incandenza

>> No.15824417

>>15822404
Do books/plays based on true events count as fiction? I figured this counted since it was favorite characters in fiction, not favorite fictional characters.