Summary
Charles Bukowski: Faktotum
If anyone can be said to have written what he undertook and to have undertaken what he wrote about, then it is Charles Bukowski, a graduate lecher from Los Angeles... A bastard who bears the mark of an unwanted child, an individualist who willfully presents himself as a rascal, an egomaniac and an erotomaniac who revels in his marginality and for whom conventions apply less than a roll of toilet paper. All ideals are a hook for the naive, just like religions and ideologies, which is to say that nothing matters; nothing, except momentary desires, and they most often come down to alcohol and women.
The meaning of his writing is in the negation of canonized literature (which he judges extremely strictly, but lucidly), in the search for beauty that turns into ugliness, in the aggressiveness that is on the other side of the deeply hidden sensitivity in man... Bukowski captivates with his honesty and wit, seasoned with black humor and truthfulness.
The worst at the same time, it is the best that he can offer to the audience.
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