Most badass names in literature

Dostoyevsky

László Krasznahorkai.

David DTF Wallace

Dunno man. It makes me want to go join the gestapo and to do a shakedown on his entire family, and then to send them to the camps despite not finding anything.
>Vladislav the Gorgeous Hillock
I mean: what the fuck?
Theodor von Dostow sounds much better imho. Why did he not like the Germans so much? Can you think of one single German character of his who is not an asshat and a jerk?

I always thought Franz Kafka sounded badass.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

and it's become part of the language. "kafkaesque". i think if your name becomes a word, it's pretty badass. nobody ever says "dostoyevskyesque". or "wallaceesque"

Can you think of a German character in any Russian literature that isn't an asshat and a jerk?

Dostoevskian is a word
A Dostoevskian scandal is a term I've heard before.
Of course it is not nearly as ubiquitous as Kafkaesque.

Hegel

the german race has always been one asshats and jerks

Conrad
Aldous Huxley
Lovecraft

Lautréamont.

Sloterdijk (pronounced slaughter dick)

the german doctor in the brothers karamazov.

Neetzsche.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon

Duff Wub

It's always a treat when there's a little Lovecraft in a story.

>Conrad
PARTYGLUE

Winrar

Rainer Maria Rilke

Lautréamont

Where did the ruggles nickname actually come from anyway?

it's his actual middle name

>nickname

kek

Oblomov's german friend is based

shit man now i want to reread oblomov.

Adolf Hitler

>slaughter dick

Yeah, no. It's slow-ter dike if you must. Niet zo interessant doen

Dickensian is also a common term, but you don't see anyone arguing that he's a badass...

he said badass not gay

Basically every Greek name

Except Plato.

Ludvig Wittgenstein
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

...

Faulkner sounds intense for some reason

dickens is literally pretty cash

yeah I agree

Yeah maybe in your dirty kraut accent

Platon*

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Virginia Woolf

>nobody ever says "dostoyevskyesque". or "wallaceesque"
I've used "Pynchonesque" before, albeit ironically

Anaximander is pretty baller

I've actually read "Pynchon-esque" used on the back of a book before. Think it might've been 2666.

Vladimir Nabokov, but only if you pronounce it incorrectly as 'NA-bo-kov' instead of 'na-BOK-off"

Charles Dickens has the most Dickensian name outside of Dickens

Ben Jonson

I was about to say that I've been pronouncing it wrong all along but then I realized that I've never actually said it out loud because I don't talk to people in the first place.

>tfw talking to local bookshop owner and i mention the name NA-bo-kov and he immediately corrects it as na-BOK-off

Man hou je bek schei uit met die onzin

Virgil

Björnstjerne Björnson

this

Thrasymachus

It sounds like your typical polish jew name, literally the most uncool type of people.

>nickname

>implying Jews are uncool

Gee I wonder who's behind this /pol/

Larochefoucauld

Underrated

Friedrich Nietzsche - Sounds powerful. When I first heard it I instantly thought of a man standing, back straight, wide shoulders, looking up and slightly off at an angle. Strong jaw jutting out, large brow ridge... his arm crossing his body and making a pointing motion out to the distance.

William Blake - Sounds mysterious. Like something from a ''fever dream''

And as the other user said: Basically every Greek name.

this

Tolkien

Gosh, now I sorta wish dostoyevskyesque was a word. Good thinking, user.

tf u tolkien bout

>wanna be a writer
>dont have a badass last, middle or first name

What do? Seriously almost every author has a badass name wtf.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Get yourself a nom de plume like everyone else.

Every lad with one name tbf

>Racine
>Voltaire
>Balzac

Reverdy, guys.
And Cioran

is it because it's your name?
i know like 3 ben johnson/ jonsons

Algernon Blackwood.

Giscard d'Estaing

t. Alberto Came Us

LORD Timothy Dexter

Juan Rulfo

William Faulkner is a nice one, for some reason the surname Faulkner conjures for me feelings of mystery, vagueness and a mystical sort of atmosphere.

Yep.
>Friedrich Nietzsche
Too true, it suits his philosophy very well.

Baruch Spinoza

Burrito Chaosh

>>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Too true, it suits his philosophy very well.

Man, how does that even work. I'm agreeing with you but I'm just so confused on how does it work. The whole names thing.

>impliceren dat er geen verschil is tussen duits en nederlands
Sterf, kankeranon

The responses to this post are very wallacesque tbqh senpai

+1

Shakespearian is even in my browser's dictionary.

Thanks to retards like you "badass" has no meaning anymore. Kill yourself.

Dutch is like drunken German with a hint of retarded English.

>Bear Star Bear Son

easy there Björn

Conn Iggulden, no ifs, ands, or buts

It's his legal middle name

Mac DeMarco

This. Sounds like some dark lord or some shit.

Raymond Carver

It's magyar, you uncultured swine

Keep being a good goy.

fucking pleb

Early in the morning

also seconding this

Peter Gay. It's not even a pen name.

Milan Kundera