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[Anonymous No.20858621]

Who’s the most intellectually engaging fictional character?

[Anonymous No.20858634]

>>20858621
My internet persona

[Anonymous No.20858640]

>>20858621
Luffy from One Piece

[Anonymous No.20858649]

>>20858621
Serious answer: Ivan Karamazov.

[Anonymous No.20858659]

Joe from Call of the Crocodile

[Anonymous No.20858675]

>>20858621
Ulrich

[Anonymous No.20859017]

>>20858649
I was thinking the exact same thing, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.20859058]

>>20859017
I would also add that, even though I've only read The Hamlet so far, I think that Faulkner's characters Flem and Mink Snopes are fascinating and confusing in the best possible way. At one point in The Hamlet, Mink lives purely off his own superhuman will & hatred, wheat dust from a barrel, coffee, and wood splinters in this isolated shack after doing something very naughty. It's a very intense and engaging view of this simple "hick" who has this seemingly inexhaustible, roaring ocean of will and raw power.

[Anonymous No.20859460]

>>20858675
Ulrich? Why did he choose that name?

[Anonymous No.20859481]

Constantine Dmitrich Levin

[Anonymous No.20859480]

>>20858649
Yep

[Anonymous No.20859492]

>>20858649
>character so compelling that author can't even debunk his arguments despite desperately trying to
seriously, it's in his letters to his editors. He tried to debunk the Ivan chapters in the subsequent Zosima chapters, but he felt it was unsatisfactory.

[Anonymous No.20859503]

>>20858649
Is BK really all it's hyped up to be? I'm about to finish Anna and was hunting for a new tome.

[Anonymous No.20859631]

>>20858621
I think almost any Shakespeare protagonist fits the bill but Hamlet in particular.

[Anonymous No.20859687]

>>20859503

yeah, BK is good

[Anonymous No.20859766]

>>20858621
I am!

[Anonymous No.20859799]

>>20858621
Jesus.

[Anonymous No.20860633]

>>20859492
Yeah he's a disturbing character, not the least reason being that we all carry a little Ivan inside our own minds, I think.

[Anonymous No.20860666]

>>20859503
yeah it's pretty damn good, but do not attempt if you are weak of my mind my friend, cause some of the concepts in the book are very bleak. That being said, it's also got some very life affirming and beautiful parts, but overall you should tread carefully if you're disposed to depression or pessimism.

[Anonymous No.20860689]

>>20859503
It's long but it flies by. I truly didn't want it to end. But the Ivan parts, the Smerdyakov parts, and the Zossima chapters are all very intellectually stimulating beyond belief.

[Anonymous No.20860727]

>>20860689
Do you think it's ultimately optimistic or pessimistic? Just overall

[Anonymous No.20862383]

>>20858649
100% this

[Anonymous No.20862413]

>>20858621
Serious answer: Hermione Granger in the later books in the series

[Anonymous No.20862422]

>>20858621
so far Raskolnikov for me. haven't read TBK yet, honestly it's hard to believe that most here think TBK is superior to C&P because that book was absolute kino, can't imagine it being topped.

Runner up is Lord Henry from Dorian Gray.

[Voluntary Fool No.20863593]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM&t=27115s

[Anonymous No.20863788]

>>20858621
>another /a/ fag
*scrolls past*

[Anonymous No.20863833]

Woland from Master and Margarita
O’brien from 1984
The Priest in The Trial
The Japanese interrogator in Silence

All characters that seem to have a deep understanding that the protagonist doesn’t and each borders on convincing the reader

[Anonymous No.20863892]

>>20859460
idk ask Musil

[Anonymous No.20863898]

>>20858659
Sam is the most interesting character from that entire series.

[Anonymous No.20865293]

>>20863833
Characters like O’Brien, while engaging, are just knock-offs of the Grand Inquisitor.

[Anonymous No.20865303]

>>20858621
Can't believe no one has said Judge Holden yet.

[Anonymous No.20866266]

>>20862422
I mean TBK and C&P are written by the same person so it’s not that hard to believe.

[Anonymous No.20866278]

>>20859631
My thoughts as well.