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Book Magazine 선정, 20세기 영미소설 캐릭터 베스트 10 |
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Book Magazine이 선정한 20세기 영미소설 캐릭터 베스트 10
1. 제이 개츠비
<위대한 개츠비> 스콧 피츠제랄드, 1925년
2. 홀든 코울필드
<호밀밭의 파수꾼> J.D.샐린저, 1951년
3. 험버트 험버트
<롤리타> 블라디미르 나보코프, 1955년
4. 레오폴드 블룸
<율리시스> 제임스 조이스, 1922년
5. 래빗 암스트롱
<달려라, 토끼> 존 업다이크, 1960년
6. 셜록 홈즈
<셜록 홈즈 시리즈> 아서 코난 도일, 1902년
7. 아티커스 핀치
<앵무새 죽이기> 하퍼 리, 1960년
8. 몰리 블룸
<율리시스> 제임스 조이스, 1922년
9. 스티븐 디덜러스
<젊은 예술가의 초상> 제임스 조이스, 1916년
10. 릴리 바트
[The House of Mirth] 에디트 와튼, 1905년
The assignment seemed simple enough: rank the top one hundred characters in literature since 1900. But what appeared easy soon proved maddening, vexing, frustrating. Experts were consulted; lists were drawn up; hundreds upon hundreds of books were pored over. We scoured our bookshelves, called up old teachers. Still the arguments persisted. How could anyone say that Humbert Humbert was a better character than Lolita, that Holly Golightly was more compelling than Atticus Finch? Did James Joyce write better characters than John Steinbeck? And who were these oddball characters that people kept suggesting? Was Big Brother really a character? A panel of experts was brought in to settle it once and for all. Prizewinning authors, artists, book experts of all shapes and sizes were given ballots and asked to rank their favorite characters in order. The ballots are in. The votes have been counted. And these are the results.
1. JAY GATSBY
Social climber from The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Like Daisy, the object of Gatsby's desire, a money-conscious Zelda Sayre put off her engagement to a poor Fitzgerald. His first book made him rich, and Zelda married him a week after its publication.
ON JAY GATSBY, #1: "He's an American dreamer of a certain crass kind. He is the best of a terrible type. One admires him while seeing what he admires is a preposterous part of the American Dream."
-SUE MILLER, author, The World Below; The Good Mother
2. HOLDEN CAULFIELD
Prep-school dropout from The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
by J.D. Salinger
Caulfield was introduced to the American public in the 1940s in two short stories: "I'm Crazy" and "Slight Rebellion off Madison."
3. HUMBERT HUMBERT
Licentious professor in Lolita (1955)
by Vladimir Nabokov
Upon its publication, Nabokov's much-reviled book had only one notable champion: author Graham Greene, who called it one of the best books of 1955.
4. LEOPOLD BLOOM
Ad canvasser from Ulysses (1922)
by James Joyce
Joyce based Bloom on an acquaintance named Alfred H. Hunter, who took care of Joyce after he'd been knocked down in a fight.
5. RABBIT ANGSTROM
Washed-up high school basketball star from Rabbit, Run (1960) and other novels
"Rabbit would be distant and friendly, but I wouldn't seem very real to him. He'd recognize that I wasn't the real thing but a rabbit manque." -JOHN UPDIKE
6. SHERLOCK HOLMES
Legendary detective from The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and other books
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The first piece of fiction I ever wrote, when I was about ten years old, was a Sherlock Holmes story. I wrote a pastiche of Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes meeting Captain Nemo from [Jules Verne's] 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and they teamed up to fight Professor Moriarty." -MICHAEL CHABON, author, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Wonder Boys
7. ATTICUS FINCH
Right-minded lawyer from To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
by Harper Lee
Finch was Lee's mother's maiden name.
8. MOLLY BLOOM
Singer from Ulysses (1922)
by James Joyce
"I admired her earthy, sexual and lyrical qualities, her passion and her humor. I remember vividly her sensuality. And she had all of these qualities that I would try to find in women that I looked for." -KEN HOWARD, actor, Crossing Jordan
9. STEPHEN DEDALUS
Writer in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
by James Joyce
Stephen Dedalus was a pseudonym Joyce used for several stories before publishing Portrait.
10. LILY BART
Failing socialite from The House of Mirth (1905)
by Edith Wharton
Wharton's characters were modeled on people she knew in high-society families in New York and Newport, Rhode Island.
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