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antihero
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antihero
a central character in a novel, play, etc., who lacks the traditional heroic virtues


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With Lehanka, though, one finds neither the pathos of antiheroism nor heroism itself, in contrast to Jonathan Meese, for example, who celebrates the anarchy in his art like some high priest.
This isn't just a time of antiheroism, that intellectual mainstay of the past half-century.
 
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