Nice Work (1988)
David Lodge

     And there, for the time being, let us leave Vic Wilcox, while we travel back an hour or two in time, a few miles in space, to meet a very different character who, rather awkwardly for me, doesn’t herself believe in the concept of character.  That is to say (a favorite phrase of her own), Robyn Penrose, Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Rummidge, holds that "character" is a bourgeois myth, an illusion created to reinforce the ideology of capitalism.

[David Lodge, Nice Work.  New York: Viking, 1989.]