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Mumu from Turgenev's 'Mumu'
Leo Tolstoj 'The Lion and the Puppy'
Bim from Gavriil Troyepolsky 'White Bim Black Ear'

"The Good Soldier Shvejk" by Jaroslav Hashek

What about Orhan Pamuk? Isn't he a writer with a style you are searching for? :))

John Fowles "The Magus"

John Updike "The Centaur"