/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5613955]

Does /lit/ use default profiles for stock characters or do you prefer having the author's profile description for the character?

This is my Sonya, Fenechka, The girl in NUG and pretty much every poor Russian girl encountered in Russian lit.

[Anonymous No.5613975]

i imagine therese racquin as lorde for some raisin.

[Anonymous No.5614159]

I imagine the characters from the movie Troy in the Iliad. That make me lose my fucking temper btw.

[Anonymous No.5614198]

>>5614159
This

And if the book doesn't have a movie I'll just imagine them the way the author describes them.

I have a hard time imagining rooms and houses for some reason though, and I always picture them as houses or rooms that I know IRL.

[Anonymous No.5614204]

>>5613975
o i am laffin

[Anonymous No.5614225]

>>5613955
I want to lick every inch of her body.

On topic:
I usually try to stick to the author's descriptions, but on occasion I get a mental image that is so ridiculously far from the author's that it is ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.5614339]

>tfw imagining the setting in daylight
>author puts the time at night at the end of the paragraph

[Anonymous No.5614348]

I see Dorcas as a younger girl from high school. I dont even know her name and I think she is really generic and dumb but she fits the body description.

[Anonymous No.5614359]

>>5613955
that's hot

[Anonymous No.5615489]

>>5613955
oh katyusha...

I always imagine characters with great bravado and intimidating demeanor to be like Roy Batty from Blade Runner.

[Anonymous No.5615519]

I don't know about "default," but I definitely imagine the person/icon who the description/events matches the most. In Lolita I imagined Jon Hamm

[Anonymous No.5615542]

>>5613955
Why do authors waste time making character descriptions?

[Anonymous No.5615551]

>>5614339
This is the WORST

>halfway through the book mention her red hair and his brown skin
>already have images of what the characters look like at this point

[Anonymous No.5615568]

Anatoly Solonitsyn as Andrei Rublev was Alyosha Karamazov for me

[Anonymous No.5615579]

I always end up imagining people as anime-style characters. This worked especially well with Norwegian Wood. That novel felt like a visual novel.

[Anonymous No.5615580]

Also, Alain Delon as Meursault in The Stranger

[Anonymous No.5615583]

I am always the awkward sincere downtrodden idealist (which there are a lot of in literature).

[Anonymous No.5615588]

>>5615579
Whateve gets you to read better man.

[Anonymous No.5615603]

William Stoner appears to my imagination as John Fahey for some reason.

[Anonymous No.5615606]

I usually imagine the author as the main character. Especially with Kafka.

And pre-headband DFW was Hal.

[Anonymous No.5615618]

>>5615568
>>5615580
fucking excellent taste in actors nigger

[Anonymous No.5615630]

>whenever a dirty smug old asshole is portrayed

[Anonymous No.5616585]

>>5613955

Ochi chornyye, ochi strastnyye,
Ochi zhguchiye i prekrasnyye!

in regards to OP's question

I attempt to stick to the author's description as much as I can attempt, though if it develops separately from what the author intended, I don't mind.

[Anonymous No.5616595]

i love you katski

[Anonymous No.5616596]

>>5613955
I imagine all cyberpunk protagonist like gibson.

i end laughing hard.

[Anonymous No.5616690]

>>5614159
This, holy fuck

[Anonymous No.5616699]

Recently I've started to imagine this drawing of Harold Bloom as the protagonist of every book I read

[Anonymous No.5616715]

>>5614225
How does that play in your own imagery? Having a vague description for a character walking around in the setting?

[Anonymous No.5617433]

>>5615606
I imagine Kafka the main character of every book