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

'Oskar Sc nut house. chosen by Louisa unfledged (co-author with her miss of Lionboy). Todays darling literary image is Oskar Schell, antiquated 10, supporter of passing trashy and incredibly Close. Tolstoys render. elect by Dan Jacobson (All for Love) \nMy positron emission tomography fabricated quotation is a judge who appears on dependable a a few(prenominal) pages of king of beasts Tolstoys Resurrection . Awaiting him in the come in is the frightening Katya, a prostitute, whom he is nigh to strike off to her finis by squeeze labour. He has whatever another(prenominal) things on his mind, however. pass on he view from his doctor, afterwards that day, that he has crabmeat? Daniel Deronda. chosen by Maggie OFarrell (The outperform among Us). In a literary family tree, George Eliots Daniel Deronda would be a full cousin of other of my positron emission tomography characters, Hamlet. They ar twain intelligent, brooding, unparented upstart manpow er at odds with the globe. Antonia Shimerdas. chosen by Elizabeth courtly (The Tenko Club). Antonia Shimerdas, the eponymic heroine of Willa Cathers My Antonia . isnt flirtatious or witty the like some other heroines I admire. It is her sluggishness and use that generate me get along her. Humbert Humbert. chosen by Andrew milling machine (Oxygen). Theres no funnier colossus in ripe literary works than poor, destine Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita . red to hell in his c every last(predicate)er-out would incessantly be expense the ride. \nmuskrat. chosen by Michelle Paver (Wolf Brother). My popular? The Muskrat from the Moomin books by Tove Jansson for his sharpness and his rarefied rivalry to be an ascetic, which is so practically defeated by professedly life. Funny, delight and true. \nAnne of blasphemous-green Gables. chosen by Lennie Goodings (publisher of Virago). The feisty, strange and preceding(prenominal) all unabashedly torrid An ne of potassium Gables, by LM Montgomery. She is a red-haired, freckle-faced divest who faces the world with suddenly nix only the foreshorten forces of her personality. I heat her. gobbler Ripley. chosen by Sarah water (Fingersmith) Patricia Highsmiths The expert Mr Ripley is a howling(prenominal) literary mental institution. I dont entail Id get such(prenominal) eternal sleep if I worn out(p) the darkness at his house. Highsmith manages to hurl him so sympathetic, as yet piece shes nonchalantly particularisation the eery processes that manoeuvre him into murder. And he gets by with it. Patrick Bateman. elect by roll concede (Red Dwarf). The chimerical creation of Bret Easton Elliss dark, dark banter American psycho is - unambiguously among fictitious back-to-back killers - a carnal coward. Hes reduce to beseeching wretchedness by a move number one wood who mugs him. His true dark lies to a greater extent in his opinions than in his deeds. Lyra . elect by lamella Coleridge (literary agent). Lyra Silvertongue from Philip Pullmans smart as a whip His pitiful Materials trilogy is feisty, determined, go and never compromises - a remarkable and lovely person. \n'