Earlier, he had observed that traits one could accept in a novel's protagonist, or in a complicated friend, often seemed loathsome to modern moviegoers.
Rarely have I read a novel whose protagonist is such an exact corollary to the text itself.
The first of them, "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), was the direct offspring of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo," which, in turn, was a first cousin once removed of Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," a novel whose protagonist, with a heart like a corn husk, was known only as the Continental Op.
About the novel: To Whom Much Is Given - A Novel weaves protagonist Avery Benjamin, Esq.'s internal and external conflicts into the lives of diverse supporting characters to depict a segment of American society driven by success.
Taplitz, who has the pallor and vibe of a Victorian-novel protagonist, had just come from Cape Cod.
Love not only heightens the perils besetting a novel's protagonists, it makes us newly sensitive to all reality's possible risks.
Neuromancer does have the rudiments of a traditional novel: a protagonist and a plot.
By Alastair Gee January 31 , 2017Niviaq Korneliussen, the author of a novel about queer protagonists confronting their identities in modern-day Greenland, is the rare Greenlandic writer to find a true readership beyond her native island.
The cycle portrays the difficulties of growing up female under Franco through the character Tadea, the novels' protagonist.
But "The Poorhouse Fair" is a futurist novel; the protagonist in "The Centaur" is a schoolteacher with the head of a man and the body of a horse; "Rabbit, Run" was written in the historical present, which, in 1959, the year he finished the novel, had rarely been used in fiction.
