The first Aunty Hero?

by Thelwall Pleasance

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-11-04 02:40:00

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The ultimate anti-hero has to be Becky Sharpe (Vanity Fair). She might even have been the first… any counters?

One definition could be: Anti-heroes are products of their time, not entirely blameless but not entirely to blame, either. We identify with them because to us they seem more human than the average Hero.
Martin Amis’ novels are chock FULL of anti-heroes – he writes them particularly well. London Fields: Guy Clinch, Keith Talent, the narrator…
His father’s most famous character, Jim Dixon, is another. Has anyone read Lucky Jim? I only ask because I feel like a bit of a token Brit here. Don’t know about American reading habits.