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The 21 pages that link to Grotesque, each with the reason it gives.

• Black comedyRelated: Grotesque imagery can make the disturbing comic without making it reassuring.

• CaricatureCompared with: Grotesque imagery need not preserve the recognizable likeness that distinguishes caricature.

• Southern GothicRelated: Grotesque bodies and behavior make social damage visible in Southern Gothic works.

• Nikolai GogolRelated: His distorted bodies and absurd situations make social comedy feel unsettling.

• Guillermo del ToroRelated: His designs make the strange and repulsive capable of beauty and sympathy.

• Flannery O'ConnorRelated: Her misshapen and extreme characters make hidden moral assumptions visible.

• Sherwood AndersonRelated: Anderson uses the idea to frame characters whose private truths harden into obsessions.

• Eugène IonescoRelated: Ionesco’s comic absurdities often tip into bodily or existential unease.

• ButohRelated: The grotesque helps explain why butoh can make beauty and repulsion coexist in one image.

• Dead SoulsRelated: Its distortions make ordinary social flaws appear physically and morally monstrous.

• Otto DixRelated: Dix used grotesque features to sharpen the impact of his social satire.

• Witold GombrowiczNarrower topic: Gombrowicz uses grotesque distortion to make social conventions look arbitrary and oppressive.

• Junji ItoRelated: His detailed images make familiar forms disturbing through exaggeration and distortion.

• Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinRelated: Grotesque bodies and situations intensify the absurdity of official power in his fiction.

• Comte de LautréamontRelated: Ducasse’s transformations and violent scenes repeatedly mix beauty with horror.

• Ero guroRelated: Grotesque distortion supplies the aesthetic’s characteristic bodily unease.

• Leonid AndreyevRelated: Andreyev’s clowns and masked figures mix comic spectacle with dread.

• Lyudmila PetrushevskayaRelated: Her domestic settings often turn strange and menacing without abandoning ordinary detail.

• Mervyn PeakeRelated: Peake’s vivid characters and images often combine comic exaggeration with menace.

• Triptych of the Temptation of St. AnthonyRelated: Bosch’s hybrid creatures turn temptation and disorder into memorable visual inventions.

• Vũ Trọng PhụngRelated: Exaggerated bodies and behavior sharpen the absurdity of his social portraits.