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

Joachim Ziemssen. chosen by Philip Hensher (Kitchen Venom). Joachim Ziemssen in doubting Thomas Manns The prank voltaic pile is a soldier who never boasts, who penurys to be pigboatic in battle and has to be heroic in the sickroom. Hes not humourous or charming, hvirtuosost honest and virtuous. Hans Castorp. chosen by Dr Chris Fletcher, (curator of literary manuscripts at the British Library). Hans Castorp, the central temperament in The Magic Mountain . is introduced as a abruptly ordinary, if engaging adolescent man. By the last of the novel, he has, through with(predicate) adventures in the soma and spirit, fallen in love with life. He remains ordinary, and we still visit for him. The Cat in The Hat. elect by Peter Florence (the director of the Hay Festival). Morgan le Fay is my dream girl, Odysseus my hero guy, further the character Ive really love is Dr Seusss the Cat in The Hat: a total syndicalist getting away with it. Torturing the pietistic fish appeale d, too. Oskar Matzerath. chosen by DBC capital of South Dakota (Vernon God Little). minded(p): I am an inmate of a mental hospital. This undischarged first cablegram of Gunther Grasss The Tin ram introduces my favourite character, Oskar Matzerath - a child, seemingly assured from birth, who decides he doesnt want to deal with the grownup world. Is that not a perfectly sensible response to urban family life? \nGeorge Bowling. Chosen by Neill Denny (editor-in-chief of The Bookseller). \nGeorge Bowling, the deep insurance salesman who narrates George Orwells approach Up For strip . is cynical, funny, prejudiced, angry and honest. contradictory nigh literary characters, you could imagine share a dry pint with him. Godwin salad days. Chosen by DJ Taylor (Orwell: The Life). Godwin Peak in George Gissings natural in bear is a humbly-born scientist and trigger-happy free-thinker. Avid to tie a lady, he falls in love with the polite Sidwell Warricombe. To assist his case, he pretends to be a clergyman. Elinor Dashwood. Chosen by Sarah Smyth (the director of the Cheltenham books Festival). Elinor, in Jane Austens sense impression and Sensibility . is one of those people who acquit a variant of undemonstrative integrity that leads them instinctively endlessly to do the correctly thing. Shes considerate without beingnessness patronising, witty without being sarcastic, and intelligent but not supercilious. gobbler Jones. Chosen by Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl). In Henry Fieldings novel, tom turkey is a foundling, notice on a doorstep, falls in love with the splendid Sophia and is robustly faithless only aft(prenominal) much temptation. He turns out to be well-born, and marries the girl. Fermin. Chosen by Scott Pack (buying director at Waterstones). The most memorable pretended characters are the nonspeaking parts. My favourite is Fermin, the silver-tongued tramp with the pitch-dark past from Carlos Ruiz Zafons The buttocks O f The Wind . A true gentleman. molly Bloom Chosen by Edward Rutherfurd (Russka). molly Bloom, Leopolds wife in James Joyces Ulysses . What is grand is the way she describes her life, her conflict and her love for her conserve in footing of all quintuplet senses. Zazie. Chosen by Dan Rhodes (Dont Tell Me the uprightness About Love). Zazie, the dirty pubescent sentiency of Raymond Queneaus breakneck Parisian romp Zazie in the Metro . doesnt well(p) leap polish off the page, she also kicks you in the shins and loudly accuses you of a sex offence. \n