Deze serie volgt het leven van een nonconformist die worstelt met de absurditeiten van het bestaan en zoekt naar betekenis in een chaotische wereld. Met rauwe eerlijkheid en cynisch gevoel voor humor duikt het in de diepten van de menselijke psyche, waarbij thema's als verslaving, vluchtige relaties en de strijd tegen maatschappelijke normen worden verkend. Het biedt een rauwe, compromisloze kijk op het leven aan de rand van de samenleving, die resoneert bij lezers die authenticiteit en onverbloemde waarheid waarderen.
Charles Bukowski's debut novel introduces his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office job supports his life of beer, one-night stands and race-tracks.
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless dunk, drifts around America form one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.
Tells the story of an ugly old man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him as he begins more and more relationships with women.
With his fourth novel, legendary barfly Charles Bukowski follows the path of his alter ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection, drinking his way through the Depression, and ends at the start of World War Two.
Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the glamour