greatest Anti-hero of all time?

by e_dog

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-10-26 20:45:00

who (what) is it? (first of a flourish of questions)

two nominations:

The Underground Man in Dostoyevski’s Notes from the Underground.

Grendel in Gardner(?)’s book of that title, showing the flip-side of the Beowolf (sp?) tale.

others: Oedipus, maybe, Hamlet, perhaps.

at what point does hero become Anti-hero? answer: Hamlet.
at what point does anti-hero become villain? answer: Clockwork Orange.

is Holden Caufield hero or anti-hero?
does this matter? to You?