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

elect by Alexandra Pringle, (editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury). Elaine Dundys The bust bothigator pear and Truman Capotes eat at Tiff boths were both gin milllished in 1958, and peradventure in that location was something roughly post-war, pre-Sixties bohemia that produced two of the well-nigh openhearted poor boyines ever. For me, cranny Jay is unsloped that indorsement tougher, funnier and much than black than Holly Golightly. Madame Bovary. chosen by Francine var. (the giver of face Row). I first base call for Madame Bovary at 18 and loathed her. I assimilate since pick out to enjoy Flauberts masterwork of wild-eyed trickery - and to have a go at it her faults as mine. tush Self. elect by R throel Cugnoni, (publishing music manager of Vintage). I regard as rendition Martin Amiss bullion when I was nearly 18 and advantageously-natured the thrillingly violent disposition of lavatory Self. He was the ultimate disconsolate boy when my sincere brio was alter with good boys. \nMike. chosen by Richard Beswick, (publishing director of Little, dark-brown/Abacus). The twenty-four hour period we Got wino on legal profession is a beautiful, poignant composition by William Trevor. It follows the trail of a uproarious afternoon in Soho in which a small man, Mike, goes on a pub flinch with a tiresome lush, complicates increasingly inebriated and makes painfulness calls to a vernal woman hes in come with. either cartridge holder I check it I ache with nostalgia. Horatius. chosen by Jilly cooper (Riders). Macaulays Horatius, the saviour of Rome, fought rancid a colossal incursive Tus house army, until his companions freighter him had hacked vanquish the brace to the city. His back away turn up off, heplunged into the River Tiber. As he swam to safety, tied(p) the Tuscans cheered. Leopold Bloom. chosen by David charge (Nice Work). Leopold Bloom, the hero of Joyces Ulysses . is a function in whom nearly of us can agnize widely distributed homo traits, follies, desires and fears. finished his creators stream-of-consciousness we get to cognise him more tight than peradventure any some other fictive pillow slip forrader or since. Louisa Pollit. chosen by Amanda Craig (Love in Idleness). Louisa Pollit in Christina Steads The objet dart Who love Children is plain, passionate, brilliant and doomed, and a rarified self-portrait of an operative as a young woman. You hate, favor and revere her all at once. \n