"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriterOpening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.

Pulp

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriter Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. The Continual Condition is a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski-raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on in The Continual Condition, a godsend for admirers of his previous collections Slouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, and Love is a Dog From Hell, as well as his novels Factotum, Ham on Rye, and Pulp.

The Continual Condition - Poems

« Ça a commencé par erreur, c’étaient les fêtes de Noël et j’avais appris par le pochard en haut de la côte qu’ils embaucheraient carrément n’importe qui, alors j’y suis allé et sans avoir le temps de réaliser je me suis retrouvé avec une sacoche en cuir sur le dos à cavaler. »Depuis qu’il est postier, Henry Chinaski parvient tous les matins à traîner sa gueule de bois hors du lit pour aller distribuer d’énormes sacs de courrier à des citoyens peu reconnaissants, avant de revenir se mettre sous les ordres de vicieux chefs de services toujours prêts à le faire trimer, et à l’éloigner de sa sainte trinité : l’alcool, les femmes et les courses de chevaux.Premier roman de Charles Bukowski, qui lui apporta la gloire à sa publication, en 1971, Le Postier, inspiré de sa propre expérience, est la meilleure porte d’entrée dans le monde de cet auteur légendaire, grand poète et « vieux dégueulasse ».

Le Postier

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriterPlay the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.

Play the Piano

Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters. Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence-letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers-the writer shares his insights on the art of creation. On Writing reveals an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work and canny and uncompromising about the absurdities of life-and of art. It illuminates the hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and counterculture icon-the "laureate of American lowlife" (Time)-who stoically recorded society's downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an artist grounded in the visceral, whose work reverberates with his central ideal: "Don't try."Piercing, poignant, and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with Bukowski's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos, and intimacy.

On Writing

J'ai 90 mille dollars

à la banque

50 balais

125 kilos sur la balance

jamais réveillé au son d'une alarme

et suis plus proche de Dieu

que ne l'est le

moineau.

Une anthologie de poèmes inédits parus dans d'obscurs magazines, conservés dans des bibliothèques et collections privées. 

Profonde, rythmée, transgressive, hilarante, vernaculaire, la poésie de Bukowski est à l'image de son auteur : aux antipodes de la littérature académique.

Tempête pour les morts et les vivants - Poèmes inédits

Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited.From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'. These are angry yet tender, humorous and haunting portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.

Folies Ordinaires

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriterWhat Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire is the second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski that takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s.

What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Manny Hyman est dépressif, alcoolique, et par-dessus tout terriblement mauvais acteur. Pourtant, sur un malentendu, la chance va lui sourire !

Pulp

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