Hollywood

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton – and depict the darkest parts of human existence.  Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement. In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art – his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.

Je t'aime, Albert et les autres nouvelles de Hot water music

Voici le meilleur des chroniques publiées par le grand écrivain de la déglingue made in Los Angeles dans un magazine underground à la fin des années soixante. Ses thèmes ? Les packs de bière, les courses de chevaux, la " tragi-comédie " du sexe, les psychodrames de caniveau, quelques dégagements bien sentis sur la littérature, la vie en général. Ses personnages ? Des femmes de la rue, des paumés, des allumés, et bien sûr Bukowski lui-même. Son style ? Nu et d'enfer. La petite histoire de la côte Ouest croise parfois l'actualité nationale (l'attentat contre Robert Kennedy). Bukowski napalme le rêve américain dans des morceaux de bravoure écrits " en toute liberté, un oeil sur la fenêtre, à siroter ma bière et à attendre que ça vienne ". On rit jaune et noir. Comme dirait l'auteur : " Régalez-vous. "

Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse

Une anthologie de textes inédits sur l’écriture, le quotidien d’une véritable légende américaine, icône de la contre-culture. Ces lettres aux éditeurs, directeurs de revues, amis et confrères écrivains pour la première fois publiées, dessinent un portrait intime du grand poète tour à tour poignant, glacial, iconoclaste et souvent hilarant. On y découvre le rapport inquiet au travail, l’érudition littéraire, mais aussi le mordant, l’intransigeance de celui qui a donné voix aux opprimés et dépravés de la société, dans des phrases mémorables ponctuées de moments de grâce.

Sur l’écriture

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriterMockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published. In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never- before-seen material-poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski's inimitable poetic style-tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.

Storm for the Living and the Dead - Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

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

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.

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