Or are Tolstoy, who did it a lot :).

…u probably don’t want to confuse readers by giving two or more characters the same name (unless you have good reasons for doing so — as in this summer’s Barbie movie, in which most of the characters are named either Barbie or Ken)…
Naming Your Characters
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Janice Harayda
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Or are Tolstoy, who did it a lot :).
https://medium.com/fan-fare/why-anna-karenina-might-get-an-f-in-today-s-writing-classes-d28d524428f6
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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.
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