 A list of literary characters personifying "poshlust" will include... Polonius and the royal pair in "Hamlet", Rodolphe and Homais from "Madame Bovary", Laevsky in Chekhov's 'The Duel', Joyce's Marion [Molly] Bloom, young Bloch in "Search of Lost Time", Maupassant's 'Bel Ami', Anna Karenina's husband, and Berg in "War and Peace"".also listed
Azar Nafisi mentions it and quotes the "falsely" definition in "Reading Lolita in Tehran".Nabokov often targeted "poshlost" in his own work; the Alexandrov definition above refers to the character of M'sieur Pierre in "Invitation to a Beheading".