I never appreciated ‚positive heroes‘ in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more ‚productive‘ literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

José Saramago, portugiesischer Schriftsteller, Nobelpreis für Literatur 1998, (16.11.1922 – 18.06.2010)