Summary
Charles Bukowski: Palp
Palp is the last novel by the American writer and poet Charles Bukowski. This novel, a parody of detective pulp fiction, was published in 1994, just a little before the death of the author himself, and represents the author's last manifesto, the fictional culmination of a specific literary expression and life.
Palp is an homage to Los Angeles, a city that is presented in this novel as a labyrinthine topography of a dynamic and bizarre thriller, an urban scenery seen through a cloudy glass. The city that never sleeps with its obscure bars, smoky rooms, small apartments, the city with a million neon eyes, like a genre monster, possessed Bukowski and spoke with his voice and recognizable "dirty" style.
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