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Background

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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

January 5, 2018

I've always loved Bukowski's books. There's no "poetry" in his words, but there's reality, he talks about the real world, his own life, a disturbing one, and I feel attracted to that kind of readings, that shows that bad side of life that not many want to look at.
Bukowski was seen most of his life as a weirdo, more an antisocial than an introvert, ignored by men and specially by women (something that later changed), a misogynist, a drunker who liked to polemicize.
Well, it's clear that nowadays he would have probably been considered one of those macho men, but I'm not going to judge his life, but his work, and I think that as a writer, maybe he's not the best using words or composing "beautiful" sentences, but he's got something crude, special and ironic, surrealistic, that sometimes makes you laugh and some other times makes you think.
Talking about this biography, I think that maybe is not the best to get specific details about his life, just generalities and some concrete details, but I think you know better his life by his own works than by these book. His childhood was hard, but I think this is something not very explored in this biography. Anyway, is very easy to read and is still interesting if you

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Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and emigrated to the United States with his parents two years later. Bukowski had lived the life of a skid row alcoholic until he was treated for an ulcer problem in 1955. He replaced his excessive drinking with writing poetry, and published the poetry collection Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail in 1960.

Bukowski went on to write novels, short stories, and more poetry. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1974, the Loujon Press Award, and the Silver Reel Award. Bukowski’s more famous works include his novels featuring protagonist Henry Chinaski, such as Post Office (1971) and Ham on Rye (1982), and his Notes of a Dirty Old Man, a collection of writing gathered from columns he wrote for the alternative Los Angeles newspaper Open City.

Widely known as a poet, Bukowski’s work emitted a sense of anti-heroism, ruggedness, and anarchism. Bukowski lived and worked on the edge, having questioned the validity of society’s ideas of morality and patriotism. Bukowski died March 9, 1994 of leukemia. 

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