To think the poor soul will never know the pleasures of Ham on Rye, South of No North, The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame, etc. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner of City Lights, was one of the first to recognize Bukowski's talents.

I should think it's about the same since the two languages are very similar (Norway was part of Denmark until 1814), although there's naturally some differences in the pronunciation. I do not care for Stephen King, but I would never join a Stephen King forum to tell them that they have bad taste in literature. I am glad to see there's balanced and educated people like yourself among Buk's fan, you raise the average. Many of Bukowski’s stories revolve around marginalized individuals and society’s outcasts, such as drifters, alcoholics, and prostitutes. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

Bukowski’s works are extraordinarily vivid and often bitterly funny observations of people living on the very edge of oblivion.

But he was the only one who was aware of the situation, since the others were sleeping, and he switched holes after each job was done. Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, first published in 1972, is a collection of short stories by the renowned American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski.With brutal honesty and candor, he captures their struggles, pain, and resilience, shedding light on the darker aspects of existence. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness was the original incarnation of a work that was later published as two separate books. newspaper column of that name, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972), and Hot Water Music (1983). Apostamos a que el lector de este libro estará de acuerdo con la receta de Neil Baldwin: «Tomar una porción de Hemingway, añadir una dosis de humor (del que Hemingway extrañamente carece, mientras Bukowski es un virtuoso), mezclar con un puñado de hojas de afeitar y varios litros de vino barato, luego una o dos gotas de ironía, agitar bien y leerlo al final de la noche: así tendrá el auténtico sabor Bukowski».Well, the main problem for me with Danish was that the spelling and the pronunciation difer more than in Norwegian. If I remember correctly, this is the same situation described in Factotum, during that spell he was living at the house of that rich old man? It looked like every single story was the epilogue of a book that includes drinking, cheating and every known vice.

One critic described his writing as "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free," an image which he certainly strove to live up to. But I just find it weird all this ambiguity, so many identity games like if he just dared to suggest in a confuse way that there was a part of himself in Henry Chinaski but he didnt have the balls to go all the way.A youngin' like myself would cram my mouth full of bubblegum and Bazooka Joe would pack a laugh with every bite and I'd damn near choke to death laughing. He could change their names, make up little bits, exaggerate, and people still knew that he was revealing things they would have preferred he kept hidden. Well, I am not really interested in the life of any author (except a few exceptions, of course), it's only their work what catches my eye.