Characters
- Alexei Ivanovich
- The General
- Maria Fillipova
- Polina Alexandrovna
- Antonida Vasilevna (Grandmother)
- Madamoiselle Blanche De Cominges
- Madame La Comtesse
- Marquis Des Grieux
- Mr. Astley
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)