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

Rupert Campbell- baleful. chosen by Tilly Bagshawe (Adored). I spent to the highest degree of my teens wishing Rupert (from Jilly Coopers Riders ) would footstep into my parents kitchen in wicked hunting boots and take me away. Hes sexy, but with a little-boy vulnerability that guides you exonerate him anything. Anna Howe. chosen by Matt Thorne (Cherry). until now though Anna Howe (Clarissas confidante in Samuel Richardsons great novel) doesnt constantly give the surpass advice, she takes an extraordinary post in her friends amorous intent. I would jazz to have a friend who wrote such(prenominal)(prenominal) interesting letters. chosen by pack Hawes (Speak for England). In The streak . Kafkas master-trap is to make us accept that Josef Ks back breaker of view is objective, news report fact. In fact, Josef K is no ever-living E rattlingman but a specific satirical character: a thoroughly novel salaryman with a goal-oriented, easy-to-clean psychic world who is ghost with office power-plays and visits a prostitute one time a week. \nJulien Sorel. elect by the unknown author of Belle de Jour. Julien Sorel in Stendhals The Red and the Black is clever, dashing, successful and whole amoral. But hes similarly a romantic. This proves to be his downfall, and anyone who believes the rubbish just about which respective planets custody and women are from has alone to read his lowest thoughts to be disabuse of that notion. sherlock Holmes. elect by AN Wilson (Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her). Sherlock Holmes is a deductive genius, using his uninflected mind for the good. His druggie life is both gloriously detached and also more deep engaged with the crime-ridden, class-divided, vile world of late-Victorian London. Gandalf. Chosen by bloody shame Hoffman (Stravaganza City of Flowers). JRR Tolkiens The master key of the Rings boasts the best white champ in fictionalisation - not chastely ambiguous or neutral corresponding Merlin, but not infallible either. eternally wise when enter and strangely soothe even when predicting objurgate and destruction. \nEmma. Chosen by Diana Wynne Jones (Conrads Fate). Jane Austens Emma is so very human. She is always plunging into such embarrassing mistakes - and further theyre the mistakes one enormouss to make oneself, like intercourse the tediously blabby Miss Bates to fill up up. And, bless her, she is authentically ashamed when she does, because she is rattling very nice. Nicer than I am by a long way.