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Stewed
10-06-2011, 07:48 PM
I'm glad to hear that others thought George Eliot did a good job of writing guys. (And once again, the internet reminds us that the bad old days linger on.)
JBI
10-06-2011, 11:32 PM
Hmmm, Orlando I think would be a great character, as is Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway.

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Another good one would be Heathcliff I think - Don't like the novel, but the character is interesting as it anticipates much of psychological study that would follow 50 years after the novels publication.
Seasider
10-07-2011, 06:39 AM
I was thinking of Mr Ramsay in To the Lighthouse but he was by all accounts very much modelled on VW's father so I doubt he would count as an original creation. And Orlando was by turns male and female. More like Vita Sackville West than anyone else.
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10-07-2011, 10:35 AM
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victorianfan
10-07-2011, 11:50 AM
I'm glad to hear that others thought George Eliot did a good job of writing guys. (And once again, the internet reminds us that the bad old days linger on.)

Mr. Grandcourt from Daniel Deronda is one of the most impressive male characters that I've ever encountered in a novel.
Stewed
10-07-2011, 05:59 PM
I've heard good things about Daniel Deronda.

Orlando, good one! haha. I read Mrs.

Dalloway, but it was too long ago. Haven't read To the Lighthouse.

(I can't keep who said what straight in my head.)

It's interesting to see Woolf come up so much, since she had a sort of theory that good writers, or artists, usually had a streak of another gender in them.
Gregory Samsa
10-10-2011, 06:43 AM
Atemschaukel (Everything I Possess I Carry With Me) by Herta Müller.
mal4mac
10-10-2011, 08:22 AM
Mr. Grandcourt from Daniel Deronda is one of the most impressive male characters that I've ever encountered in a novel.

Yes, having now just finished the novel I think he is the most impressive of the male characters - really encapsulates the "banality of evil". Daniel's idealism becomes very trying, and very forced - I just can't buy his movement towards becoming "father of the nation of Israel".