Sexiest character?

[SpaceOddity]

:p

*votes Heathcliff*

[Melville]

I have trouble finding fictional characters sexy. However, if forced to choose one, I'd go with Nastasya Filippovna from The Idiot. Mmm... tormented.

[Spinal]

First thing that comes to mind is Margarita from The Master and Margarita. Gotta love naked nighttime flying over Russia.

[Ezee E]

I like Diablo Cody's wit in her memoir. THat's as close as it gets for literature I guess.

[Sycophant]

I like Diablo Cody's wit in her memoir. THat's as close as it gets for literature I guess.
Yeah, I pretty much fell in love with Sarah Vowell through her writing, but I can't think of a literary character that I've found particularly sexy.

Not that I wouldn't be open to such a thing. You hear that, fictitious ladies?

[SpaceOddity]

I have trouble finding fictional characters sexy. However, if forced to choose one, I'd go with Nastasya Filippovna from The Idiot. Mmm... tormented.

She has the sexiest name of any female character, too.

I only find people sexy if they could've stepped from a novel. Preferably gothic. :P

[Milky Joe]

I've always kinda had a thing for Avril Incandenza from Infinite Jest. mmm, agoraphobia.

[lovejuice]

as answered before, my one and only literature lust is the trial's leni. i don't know why, but i always picture her in a kinky hentai sorta costume. yummy!

[Philosophe_rouge]

Yup, Heathcliff is so many levels of hot. Also Phillip Marlowe.

[Melville]

I only find people sexy if they could've stepped from a novel. Preferably gothic. :P
On a non-gothic, non-sexy note, have you read the German Romantics? I highly recommend The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Its style might be a bit more restrained than what you like, but it pretty much epitomizes the Romantic ideal of unrequited love.

[SpaceOddity]

Yup, Heathcliff is so many levels of hot.

*shakes fist*

Don't go coveting my Heathcliff.

*possessive*

[SpaceOddity]

On a non-gothic, non-sexy note, have you read the German Romantics? I highly recommend The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Its style might be a bit more restrained than what you like, but it pretty much epitomizes the Romantic ideal of unrequited love.

I read it. *nods*

I wanna be Bettina Brentano.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1027455,00.html

[jesse]

I wanna be Bettina Brentano.[/url] I had a professor with the name Bettina. I'd always wondered where it came from.

[monolith94]

I've always had a thing for Hester Prynne.

[Melville]

I read it. *nods*

I wanna be Bettina Brentano.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1027455,00.html

That's an awesome link. I had never even heard of her before. She seems like she was made to be your hero (or made herself to be). "My soul is a passionate dancer," indeed.

Have you read Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship? I'm wondering if I should read more Goethe.

[Qrazy]

Lolita. Oh I mean...

[Qrazy]

That's an awesome link. I had never even heard of her before. She seems like she was made to be your hero (or made herself to be). "My soul is a passionate dancer," indeed.

Have you read Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship? I'm wondering if I should read more Goethe.

Faust is pretty much essential.

[Melville]

Faust is pretty much essential.
I've already read it. However, I think I completely missed the greatness of the second half, so I should probably revisit it someday.

[SpaceOddity]

That's an awesome link. I had never even heard of her before. She seems like she was made to be your hero (or made herself to be). "My soul is a passionate dancer," indeed.

Have you read Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship? I'm wondering if I should read more Goethe.

I haven't read anything else by him. *hides*
*votes Beethoven*


Who are your heroes?
*curious*

[Melville]

Who are your heroes?
*curious*
I don't really have any. I'm quite fond of the famous stories about Dostoevsky: particularly his bitter feud with Turgenev, followed by his begging Turgenev for gambling money after his wife refused to support his addiction; and his eulogy for Pushkin that resulted in the crowd pronouncing him "genius," "saint," and "prophet." Something about the grim, ironic contrast of those stories is just too good to pass up.

[Lucky]

Estella