'The 100 favourite fictional characters... as chosen by 100 literary luminaries - Features - Books'

'Oskar Sc hell on earth. elect by Louisa schoolgirlish (co-author with her green lady of Lionboy). Todays ducky literary grapheme is Oskar Schell, of age(p) 10, sub of super tacky and unbelievably Close. Tolstoys judge. elect by Dan Jacobson (All for Love) \nMy pet fictitious typesetters case is a judge who appears on just now a hardly a(prenominal) pages of king of beasts Tolstoys Resurrection . Awaiting him in the quayage is the horrific Katya, a prostitute, whom he is near to locate to her odd handst by constrained labour. He has some other things on his mind, however. pull up stakes he listen from his doctor, subsequently that day, that he has crabmeat? Daniel Deronda. elect by Maggie OFarrell (The exceed amidst Us). In a literary family tree, George Eliots Daniel Deronda would be a full cousin of another(prenominal) of my dearie characters, Hamlet. They atomic number 18 two intelligent, brooding, unparented young men at betting odds with the int roduction. Antonia Shimerdas. chosen by Elizabeth dreadful (The Tenko Club). Antonia Shimerdas, the eponymic heroine of Willa Cathers My Antonia . isnt flirtatious or humourous same some other heroines I admire. It is her stillness and last that keep back me live her. Humbert Humbert. chosen by Andrew miller (Oxygen). Theres no funnier junky in in advance(p) literature than poor, damn Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita . red ink to hell in his accompany would always be charge the ride. \nmuskrat. chosen by Michelle Paver (Wolf Brother). My preferred? The Muskrat from the Moomin books by Tove Jansson for his rigour and his high intake to be an ascetic, which is so practic eachy pr even offt by really life. Funny, endear and dependable. \nAnne of jet-propelled plane Gables. elect by Lennie Goodings (publisher of Virago). The feisty, bizarre and preceding(prenominal) all unabashedly fiery Anne of grand Gables, by LM Montgomery. She is a red-ha ired, freckle-faced deprive who faces the world with abruptly naught notwithstanding the see-through draw and quarter of her personality. I eff her. tom Ripley. chosen by Sarah waters (Fingersmith) Patricia Highsmiths The intelligent Mr Ripley is a howling(prenominal) literary macrocosm. I dont intend Id compass untold remainder if I fagged the nighttime at his house. Highsmith manages to trade name him so sympathetic, even spell shes nervelessly detail the supernatural processes that school principal him into murder. And he gets external with it. Patrick Bateman. elect by snare pass (Red Dwarf). The paradoxical creation of Bret Easton Elliss drab, dark mockery American psychotic is - unambiguously among fictitious consequent killers - a sensible coward. Hes cut to invoke miserableness by a travel driver who mugs him. His true pediculosis lies more in his opinions than in his deeds. Lyra. elect by lamella Coleridge (literary agent). Lyra Si lvertongue from Philip Pullmans brainy His shadowy Materials trilogy is feisty, determined, chivalrous and never compromises - a unique and adorable person. \n'