Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.

Screams from the Balcony

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

Ce second volume de L'amour est un chien de l'enfer comprend les deux dernières parties de l'ouvrage : Scarlet et De vieilles mélodies enfouies au fin fond de votre esprit. C'est dans ce volume que l'on trouvera en particulier le poème intitulé L'amour est un chien de l'enfer.

L'amour est un chien de l'enfer

Une anthologie de textes inédits et illustrés sur l'alcool par le plus grand boit-sans-soif de la littérature américaine. Splendeurs et misères d'une âme imbibée d'alcool. Dans ce recueil de prose et de poésie couvrant l'ensemble de sa carrière, Charles Bukowski se sert de la bouteille comme d'une longue vue pour observer au plus près le spleen et l'idéal des déchus de l'Amérique. Sans jamais se départir de son sourire en coin, celui qui s'autoproclamait "le vieux dégueulasse" raconte comment l'alcool lui servait à la fois de muse, de combustible et de gaz hilarant.

Sur l'alcool

"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, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriterA book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. In The Captain is Out to Lunch, Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.

The Captain is Out to Lunch

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In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, "Ham on Rye" offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

Screams from the Balcony

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