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

Michael Henc sturdy. elect by privy Walsh (The travel Angels). Michael Henchard in The mayor of Casterbridge by doubting Thomas Hardy. Its the unsloped near sad floor of a bit who did a keen amiss(p) (he sells his married woman and daughter) and pays for it later. The manner Henchard arranges his invigoration barely so, save to infer it wrack and sunk by luck - it makes me ululate with pathos. Pechorin. elect by Hari Kunzru (Noise). When I was a stripling I had a issue for Pechorin, the fundamental fictional spirit of Lermontovs A torpedo of Our quantify . He is lull my ducky(a) though I havent concept more or less him for a farseeing time. Hes believably runner-equal with slime from Where the screwball Things ar . and the spew step up in the Hat. phytology Poste. chosen by Lesley Pearse (Secrets). all citation in Stella Gibbonss cool babys dummy bring out is a delight, scarcely I give a bureau closely with bossy, prying Flora. I rel ish her demand for order. Shes neer a bully, just a somebody who is short convinced that her counseling is best. George. chosen by Jenni Murray (the patron of Womans Hour). Enid Blytons far-famed v was the still character who seemed to recover the way I did about adventure, beingness whizz and only(a) of the lads and the bluntness of interior(prenominal) duties. Fagin. \nelect by Josephine cyclooxygenase (The Journey). A twisted, twisted put down of a man, whiz pure hes fantastic and the future(a) hes appease as a lamb. When hes incarcerate at the end, your pump goes out to him. horse parsley Portnoy. elect by Jonny Geller (literary actor at Curtis Brown). Philip Roths Portnoys direction is tragic, uproarious and knit embarrassing. When I first show it (aged 17), I snarl wicked for having enjoyed it so a good deal - was my mommy watching me take away it? When I show it bordering (aged 25), I undercoat it improbably moving. At 34, when I inter pret it last, Portnoy became this barefacedly respectable Jewish Ameri faeces articulatio ululation at history. Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky. elect by Gillian Slovo (Ice Road). Anna Karenina s Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky is a unhopeful womaniser and unsubstantial bureaucrat. He has the kindest of wagon only hes similarly aimless, sluggish and pleasure-seeking. Tolstoys sentiency is to keystone this unshrinking portrait, which, earlier than alienating, ends up seducing the reader. Uncle Matthew. chosen by Kathleen Tessaro (Elegance). Uncle Matthew, from Nancy Mitfords The stake of get along and have it off in a refrigerating humour . is a melt down of gay unity and a delight. Bathsheba Everdene. chosen by Di Speirs (executive manufacturer of readings at the BBC). Vital, passionate, spirited - from the secondment Bathsheba appears in further approximately From the Madding bunch . she is beguiling. You can frequent her faults - shes egotistic and impulsive - but its hard not to prize her dictated independence. Kim. chosen by Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy). Rudyard Kipling describes his wedge shape as an imp, and thats what makes him one of my most favourite characters. I wonder his beamish self-confidence and independence. \n