The poll has a limit to the number of options that can be included, chiz, chiz, chiz, so I will have do it in batches. You can vote for as many contenders as you like. Further suggestions in comments if you have them.
( The Wet Codfish Award Polls )

In response to this post by frumiousb about Proust's The Captive and The Fugitive, I commented as follows:
Narrator becomes strong contender for 'literary character we would most like to see repeatedly slapped about the chops with a wet codfish' (duking it out with Esther Summerson from Bleak House, the queen of nauseous self-deprecating tweeness).
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