/lit/ - Literature

>>16868079
damn I'm sorry anon, I hope you're doing alright

heres a dump

>>16868079
Phantom of the Opera, just move to the Middle East and become an engineer

There is a French film titled Eyes Without a Face that fits the bill. It is based on a novel so if you speak French then perhaps that will help you. Also a more tangential recommendation is Of Human Bondage. The main character has a club foot which repulses others and which he is extremely self conscious about. So the facial disfigurement is not there but a lot of the associated psychological impact is similar enough that you may get a similar feeling out of it.

>>16868079
The King with the golden mask - Marcel Schwob (it's a short story)
The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo
The kiss to the leper - François Mauriac (not 100% sure about this one my memory might fail me)

>>16868079
>he bought?

>>16868957
>There is a French film titled Eyes Without a Face that fits the bill

My firs thought exactly. Great movie. Another movie recommendation is The Elephant Man. Pretty sure there's a few books about the Elephant Man as well.

>>16868079
The face of another of Kobo Abe is a good one, but is sad, profoundly sad. Proceed with caution.

My bad, Russell's Sardonicus is included in his anthology entitled as "Haunted Castles"
>>16868647
Thank you anon
>>16868920
Why middle east and why engineer of all profession? Doesn't that require you to interact face-to-face with others?

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>>16869010
Thanks for the recommendations friends. I had also noticed that most of these are from French authors, is there a corellation?

>>16870742
>is there a corellation?
probably not, French lit has a big corpus and as such we can probably find a lot of French books about any topics. That being said, French society was for a long time more social than the other European nations and that might explain why thinkers would reflect on the exclusion of society. Good luck anon!
I already made some recs but I forgot to mention that you should probably also read Montaigne, I'm sure you will find it interesting.

>>16868079
In the 1001 Nights, the tailor tells the tales of his 7 brothers, each of which suffered a different mutilation because of his foolishness. This is after the hunchback story.

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>>16869010
>Five out of the eight recommendations are from the French
What's with them and facial disfigurement?

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>>16870774
How could we forget the hunchback of Notre-Dame

>>16870790
He got a gf

Charles Bukowski

>>16871138
No, he didn't. Read the book.

>>16870789
It's more of it being a common theme in Romantic litterature. The disfigured hero is a visually striking variant of the wise loner, the social monster who tells society its truths, etc... The culmination of this trend was Frankenstein, a gothic, but also very much a Romantic novel. The light version, without any disfiguration, would be someone like Doistoievski's Prince Mychkine.

>>16871182
>Read the book
No, not with that gypsy whore

>>16870789
Well, Beauty and the Beast is THE french fairy tale. I'm sure that classic story resonated with some of these artists and they ended up putting a spin on it.

>>16870774
>you should probably also read Montaigne
Will do, thanks for the recs anon friend

>>16871170
This. Ham on Rye specifically

>>16871232
To add to this, the "grotesque" was an esthetical trend during Romanticism.

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