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Hello /lit/ can someone recommend good novels/plays/poetry about people with body dysmorphia disorder, ugly people, or general literature featuring main characters who are due to some physical issue are not likely to be featured in traditional fare? Thanks.

>> No.9225710

your diary

>> No.9225711

my diary desu

>> No.9225714

>>9225708
Richard III

>> No.9225717

>>9225714
This is the one thing I've already read that fits the criteria, and made me want to ask for more, but ty anyway.

>> No.9225721

>>9225708
The Sun Also Rises

>> No.9225731

>>9225721
How so? I've read it - who's ugly?

>> No.9225732

>>9225708
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

>> No.9225822

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is partly coping with being an ugly loser

>> No.9225825

>>9225710
Don't be mean

>> No.9225830

>>9225731
Everyone on the inside

>> No.9225854

I automatically assume anyone who uses the phrase body dysmorphia is autistic

>> No.9225879

>>9225731
>some physical issue

Jake has a pretty severe physical issue

>> No.9225888

>>9225732
>>9225732
Was gonna say that most CP books have a grotesque character that gets détails descriptions.

>> No.9225933

>>9225879
You mean his impotence right? But I mean no one can see that from the outside.

>> No.9226014

>>9225854
Why?

>> No.9226016

>>9225708
A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.9226037

Geek Love

>> No.9227316

Wolf in White Van, its by the Mountain Goats singer and honestly excellent.

>> No.9227498

Ham On Rye by Bukowski, his face is covered in massive boils.

And the poet Steven Jesse Bernstein has a spoken word album called Prison, one of the tracks has no music, only poetry, the track is called Face and very much about being ugly.

>> No.9227877

>>9225708
Pic unrelated I guess.

Kerouack was a hunk and his muse was Adonis personified.

>> No.9227977

>>9225825
Don't be ugly.

>> No.9228021

>>9225708
the hunchback of notre dame
cyrano de bergerac
frankenstein

>> No.9228124

Ulysses

>> No.9228137

>>9225708
There's this book "stones from the river" i enjoyed it.

Also has a rape scene

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>> No.9228184

>>9225708

The Man Who Laughs by Hugo