Summary
Charles Bukowski: The bell rings for no one
Although he died at the end of the last century, the life and work of Charles Bukowski is still hotly debated today. Was he a genius or a skilled writer, a born loser or a wacky intellectual, a misogynist or a womanizer, an incurable alcoholic or a binge drinker... or just a stray elephant in the glasshouse of social norms? "Let's say" that he was a bit of everything, but above all he was, and that is certainly the most important, a superb poet and prose writer. Naturally adept with words, honest to the point of pain, he wrote without holding back or holding back on anything or anyone, far removed from any literary pretentiousness.
He rarely wrote openly and insightfully about the most important human topics such as love, sex or death, and with his readability and readability, Bukowski managed to bring good literature closer to the widest stratum of readers. This newer collection of unpublished and so far unbound stories is no exception - everything is there: a recognizably fluent handwriting, a flowing style, an "unbearable lightness" of writing... Fans are, of course, delighted with every revealed text that comes out of Buk's time machine, while some may be attracted by peculiar science fiction or erotic stories, published in underground and porn magazines.
Although light years away from the horizons of the Nobel jury or literary canon, Bukowski was and remains a chapter unto himself, an island, self-contained, so ordinary and so unusual, one of the most popular American writers of the 20th century, for whom the bells will ring for a long, long time.
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