Dear Readers,


I now consider this blog to be my Juvenelia. Have fun perusing the archives, and find me at my new haunt, here.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Who are your favorite literary bad boys and girls?

The guardian lists ten anti-heroes, but I think on the whole it's a rather eh and icon-free list. Of course it has Scarlett O'Hara, Mr. Ripley, and Satan from Paradise Lost, but no Heathcliff? No Humbert Humbert? Hmm. No Eric Northmann (note to self: must excise Sookie Stackhouse from brain!)?

What about Lady Catherine, or Macbeth, or Gollum?

I'd like to know, dear readers, who are your most loveable literary villains, villainesses, or anti-heroes?

6 comments:

  1. I love Viscount de Valmont and Henry Crawford!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Oh, the girls: Becky Sharp and Mary Crawford.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Willoughby, the cad!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Dag from "Generation X" by Douglas Coupland. I developed a crush on him in my early twenties and I've still got it.
    And also Jack from "Gilead" and "Home" by Marilynne Robinson but I think everyone feels that way who reads about him.

    As for the ladies...I'm not sure if Rebecca of Daphne DuMaurier's creation would count as an anti-hero but I like knowing that she led someone with a stiff lip like Max De Winter through a merry dance.

    And Emma, of course.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Emma, Willoughby and the Crawfords, how could I have forgotten those wondrous creations? And all the YA tomboys--Laura, Anne, Caddie Woodlawn.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Well I think that Guardian list is pretty laughable. But Moving on...

    I'd definitely include Willoughby & Wickham. Villian-wise I love Blue Duck (Lonesome Dove), Big Brother, and Moriarty. Dean Moriarty is maddeningly wonderful.

    Ladies-wise: Emma Woodhouse, Mrs. Havisham, and Carrie's mom from Stephen King's Carrie.

    ReplyDelete