John Fowles appears as himself in The French Lieutenant's Woman.
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John Fowles appears as himself in The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Holden Caulfield is pretty much J. D. Sallinger in Catcher in the Rye. Stephen King also writes himself into his . . .
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. . . Dark Tower series.
Actually, I believe I read somewhere that Wilde said the three main characters (Lord Henry, Dorian Gray and Basil) represented different aspects of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by JCamilo
Basil represented himself as he saw himself.
Dorian Gray as he wished to be.
Lord Henry as how the world perceived him to be.
To expand on this, he also literally wrote himself into scenes in 'Breakfast Of Champions'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travis_R
He also uses a number of characters throughout his bibliography that mirror himself and his own life.
Clive Cussler writes himself into every one of his books...even calls himself by name.
The priest and the barber characters in Don Quixote find a book by Cervantes in the Don's library :lol:
Pretty much any novel by Charles Bukowski (with the possible exception of "Pulp"). His protagonist Henry Chinaski is his literary alter-ego.
James G. Ballard's Crash, he is the protagonist, also name and all.
And, almost famously, comic book writer Grant Morrison in Animal Man. He actually makes Animal Man confront him in one of the most memorable dialogues in comics history.
Borges notes that that book may be the Don Quixote itself, thus making an ad infinitum series of fictions within fictions and reminding the reader he may also be a fiction, in his essay "Magias parciales del Quijote" (Parcial magics of the Quixote (some kind of translation))Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarous
All four of Thomas Wolfe's novels
Wow! :D can't remember that. Time for a re-read I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarous
I think Italo Calvino writes himself into If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, but I'm not sure as I read it a long time ago.
Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.' Sal Paradise is Kerouac
More recently, Bret Easton Ellis is the main character in "Lunar Park" and the first part reads almost like an autobiography before morphing into something altogether different.
He's also literally writes himself into Breakfast of Champions .Quote:
Originally Posted by Travis_R
I'm not entirely sure what you want. Do you want the author actually being a character or characters which are based on the author?
The second is very speculative. I'm sure in any work of literature, the writer and characters will have similarities- plus writers don't always identify themselves with the most obvious characters.
If it's work heavily based on their life, you're a bit safer on that front.