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This book is repetitive beyond all get out and will get on your every nerve and yet you can’t help but continue reading.

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Si lo vemos muy superficialmente, estamos con Henry Chinaski, (un alter ego de Bukowski) que es un escritor que está muy cerca de llegar a los 60 años, más o menos. La historia nos sigue en como él y otras mujeres mucho más jóvenes tienen encuentros sexuales. Así que el hilo de la historia es básicamente este hombre teniendo sexo con una y otra y otra mujer... I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive on its own terms."—Chinaski/Bukowski, responding to a woman who has organized his poetry reading and is surprised to find him rather nice and “normal” in person. Factotum continues the adventures of Chinaski. Unemployed, hungover, trying to make it as a writer, Chinaski falls for Jan, another barfly. The novel traces the course of their relationship and documents Chinaski’s failures in work, love, and life. Director Bent Hamer’s 2005 film adaptation of the novel, a film starring Matt Dillon as Chinaski, was a great success, bringing the novel to a new generation of readers. WomenIn Women, Bukowski as Henry Chinaski details a life lived to excess. From sexualizing women, to excessive drinking and gambling. Pleasing himself is his only concern. Vulgar, rude and crude, Chinaski is his own man. For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” Post Office was Bukowski’s very first novel. It was published in 1971 when Bukowski was fifty years old and it's probably his best novel. It tells the tale of Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski finding a job at the Los Angeles Post Office. The writing is gritty, funny, unpretentious and gripping. It features one of the all time classic opening lines: ‘It began as a mistake.’ In my opinion Post Office is up there with the modern classics Bukowski himself admired: Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, Louis Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night and John Fante’s Ask The Dust. If you haven’t already read Post Office, do yourself a favor and go down to your local library or bookshop and get it. It’s a classic. De dónde venían las mujeres? La reserva era inacabable. Cada una de ellas era individual, diferente. Sus chochos eran diferentes, sus besos eran diferentes, sus pechos eran diferentes, pero ningún hombre podía bebérselas todas, eran demasiadas, cruzando sus piernas, volviendo locos a los hombres. ¡Vaya un festín!” La literatura de Bukowski es el propio Bukowski. En él, en el personaje-autor, y en la fuerza de su lenguaje, duro, sincero e impúdico, reside toda la fascinación que provoca su literatura (que Bukowski me perdone por calificarla como literatura).

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Misogyny, misogyny, misogyny....that's all everyone sees. Few see the true character of Hank, only the brutal sexual descriptions, the words beginning with "C" and his practice of "mounting" whatever drunken soul may have wandered into his piss-stained bed. This is one of the most American novels I have ever read. It tells the story of the common man, overburdened by the memories of his abusive youth, beleagured by his own unsightly appearance and wallowing in the depths of alcoholism. Few feel the groan of his body when he rises each morning, the dull thud in his brain, or the unrequited love in his heart. This is not a story of a crude womanizer. This is the story of pain and consistency, his life moving along with each labored step, unwillingly. It is the story of rejection, acceptance and our own inherent ability to survive without really trying. Charlson, David. Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005. One of Bukowski’s first and best books of poetry. It features many poems about Jane Cooney Baker, Bukowski's first girlfriend who sadly drank herself to death.It really is a beautiful collection of poetry. It shows Bukowski's softer side.Duval, Jean-François. Bukowski and the Beats: A Commentary on the Beat Generation. Translated by Alison Ardron. Northville, Mich.: Sun Dog Press, 2002. Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.” A great collection of short stories. Bukowski describes the underbelly of society in his typical raw and unpretentious style. Even in this sort of book, I found a poetic paragraph to share with, you must know that Hank Chinaski is also a poet, apart from alcohol and women he writes poems in between.

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Tags: Analysis of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Cliffsnotes of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Enotes of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Essays of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Henry Chinaski, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Modernism, Notes of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Sparknotes of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Summary of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Themes of Charles Bukowski’s Novels, Thesis of Charles Bukowski’s Novels Related Articles Well, this is one of the instances where I'm not sure how I should start my review. It's not because I don't have anything to say, because trust me, I have sooo many opinions, I just have no idea where my rant should begin. This is the classic Bukowski book of poetry. This collection contains not only some of Bukowski’s very best poems, it contains some of the best poems ever written. A must read. I do remember trying that get up on in my hotel room and thinking "Ooooh sexy lady, oh yeah. You soooo fine!"Short fiction: Notes of a Dirty Old Man, 1969; Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1972; Life and Death in the Charity Ward, 1973; South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life, 1973; BringMeYour Love, 1983; Hot Water Music, 1983; The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, and Other Stories, 1983; There’s No Business, 1984; The Day It Snowed in L.A., 1986. These are the names of the ladies in his life: Lydia, Katherine, Joanna, Nicole, Debra, Tanya, Gertrude, Hilda, Iris, Mercedes, Liza,and Tammie. (There are others; I missed a few.) Ah, honesty goes a long way, doesn’t it?! So does humor. And this book made me laugh out loud – a lot! I went into this open-minded, but prepared to get more than a little pissed off with Henry Chinaski. You see, I’ve been reading a lot of, well, ‘feminist’ sorts of books of late. It made my end of year reading look a bit lopsided. This led me one day to google “the most misogynistic books of all time”! Ha! I would figure it all out once and for all, right? Wrong! The thing is, I never got angry with Henry, or Hank, as I expected. Not that I’d invite him over for a drink anytime soon though either. I’d hate to become one of his research projects. This guy would eat me alive. Podría sonar tedioso, o con poca gracia, pero Bukowski y su pluma tienen una dimensión impresionante. I could say I hated it because the women there were either emotionally dead or purely hysterical. I could say I hated it because the main character tried to "excuse" his pathetic life by blaming his parents, without actually making any change.