Dumb thread, but let's list literature characters that are known by their last names rather than their first.>Bloom from Ulysses>Quixote from Don Quixote>Darcy from Pride and Prejudice>Sutpen from Absalom, Absalom!Note that characters with only one name, like Hamlet, don't count.
Gatsby from the Great GatsbyScrooge from A Christmas Carol
>>25165779Stoner.
snape
>>25165779Slothrop
>>25166050beat me to it
>>25165779Humbert
>>25166065doesn't count
>>25165779RaskolnikovIn fact, quite many russian books have characters who are usually referred by their surname(atleast by an omniscient narrator)
>>25165779StencilFaust/Faustus
FrankensteinJekyll and Hyde
Des Esseintes
Captain Finster Ahab
>>25166144you cannot hide your shame, gatsby
Humbert :^)
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>>25166204You're the last name now
Here’s a test for you littérateurs, Ableukhov.
>>25166231Nikolai and Apollonovich aren't distinctly referenced by their family name in Petersburg so I don't think they count for what OP is going for
>>25166255Well done, that was the test.
>>25165779Interesting idea. You have to exclude people who are often known by both names I think otherwise you get too many. It definitely has to be "last name only".Couple of heros but not the narrator:— McMurphy (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest)— Zorba (Zorba the Greek)Couple of butlers:— Stevens (The Remains Of The Day)— Jeeves (P. G. Wodehouse) [technically a valet but never mind]Couple of detectives:— Father Brown —(G. K. Chesterton) [do we ever find his first name?]— Inspector Morse (Colin Dexter) [IIRC, he featured in a whole bunch of novels and only revealed his first name Endeavour on the last page of the last book.]
>>25165779Catch-22's John Yossarian
>>25166706His first name is John??????
Widmerpool
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>>25165779LevinScrooge
Meursault Wolodyjowski and Kmicic
>>25166959actually i dont think meursault does count since his first name isnt mentioned anywhere
>>25166967Why wouldn't it count?
>>25167663Because the Sun was in my eyes.
>>25168585Why not read in a dimly lit study next time?
