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A tightly edited collection of thirty-four Bukowski stories from the 1960s to 1980s. Profane, hilarious, self-indulgent, gritty, poignant. His characters live in Los Angeles, "in broken-down courts, attics, garages or slept on the floors of temporary friends." They drink, screw, write, get fired from menial jobs, haunt the track, and try to exist. As Bukowski puts it, "sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it." Each story is strong; many explosive, violent and vicious. They have the ring of low-down truth, whether they are or not.
J'adore ce livre, j'adore ce mec, j'adore son univers... Bref. Le seul auteur qui me donne envie d'aller me perdre dans des bars interlopes et de mettre minable, au sens premier du terme, pour être certain que tout cela est bien réel. Une boufée d'air fétide dans un monde de plus en plus hygiéniste.
Hilarious and revolting stories spewed onto the pages revealing a surprising humanity arising from places most of us never go. Don't get any on ya.
you love him or you hate him. those who hate him maybe prefer to live on the surface of life.
In this collection of Bukowski's short stories, an eclectic mix of stream-of-consciousness rants, slices of memoir and actual short stories mix to create brief glimpses from the middle of a world viewed as the fringe by most. In these stories, Bukowski writes what the early impressionists were caught painting - tales of gambling, drinking and sex. Like the painters breaking new ground, these are stories of opportunity. Instead of reaching for the prose that will look good in gilded covers, Bukowski writes graphically of times in prison, times at the bottom of bottles, the deep recesses of anger in the mind, and the self-doubt that plagues anyone of creativity. Much of it is raw, much of it is, at best, sexist, much of it comes from places of fear and anger, and some stories don't even seem to have a point, but all of it seems to come from a very personal place. Whether this place is always honest or not, is definitely up for debate.