Realistically intelligent characters in books?

What was in your opinion a realistic depiction of an intelligent person in a book youve read?

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Ivan in TBK

Sherlock Holmes

A character is at most as intelligent as its author. Sorry, bub.

H.P. Lovecraft

My diary desu

Ok, examples?

That jokes not getting old

The author has more time to think of intelligent things for the characters to say/ do than the character itself has. Your argument is invalid.

It's all a bit too much to reel in the reader. Life is a lot of nothingness inbetween.

Find me someone that can explain the nothingness.

The Socratic dialogues

You can think all you want, bub. Nothing good will come out of your head.

Notes from Underground

Maybe Ivan from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov

Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (/ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдop Mихaйлoвич Дocтoeвcкий[b], tr. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲJˈxajləvʲJtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲJj]; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881)

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To add to the Dosto dogpile, Prince Myshkin, the eponymous "idiot" in The Idiot, is an extremely intelligent and perceptive guy. I was hoping I could see myself in him the same as with the underground man and Raskolnikov, but I'm nowhere near as perceptive or tranquil as the Idiot.

>Incel rants and raves about the state of reality because he can't get his dick sucked
>Smart

I second this. One of the more likable protagonists I've read in a long time.

Your misconception is that highly intelligent people tend to accomplish a lot.

someone's already said it but Prince Myshkin is a damn role model.

Case from Neuromancer