Bøger af Charles Bukowski

Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral language and the depiction of seamy underworlds.

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles

Fifteen pages of story and illustrations.

Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.

”Ord var ikke kedelige, ord var noget, der kunne få hjernen til at nynne. Hvis man læste dem og lod sig indfange af magien, kunne man leve uden smerte, med håb, lige meget hvad der skete en.”Med det hele … (1982) er en hudløs ærlig skildring af det fattige hvide underklassemiljø under den økonomiske depression i 1930’ernes Los Angeles. Den unge Henry Chinaski kæmper med tilværelsen i et barndomshjem præget af en passiv mor og en voldelig far, der lader sine frustrationer gå ud over sønnen i form af systematiske prygl. Tæsk er der også at finde i skolen, hvor børnene lader deres hårde opvækst gå ud over hinanden gennem slagsmål og mobning. Det er først, da Henry stifter bekendtskab med alkoholen, men især litteraturen, at han finder et fristed i en verden, der fremstår absurd og uretfærdig. Vi følger Henry fra hans første erindringer om sin barndom til Amerikas indtræden i 2. Verdenskrig.”En ting er, at bogen er så velskrevet og morsom, at man suser igennem den. En anden er, at bogen giver nogle pokkers gode svar på gåden Bukowski.” – Kim Skotte, Det Fri Aktuelt”Bukowski driver de bløde følelser frem i læseren i stedet for at smøre dem ud over bogsiderne.” – Thomas Bredsdorff, Politiken”Med det hele ... Ikke bare en slapper med brød – uden farve. Men en rigtig kradser.” – Erik Thygesen, Information

"Ekstrabudene … spræller uregerligt af styrke, humor og smerte i sit portræt af det marginaliserede USA.” – InformationPå den amerikanske vestkyst i Los Angeles arbejder Henry Chinaski for postvæsnet. Vi følger ham i en hverdag præget af faste rutiner, hvor dagen begynder tidligt med at dele breve ud, mens fritiden fordrives med hestevæddeløb, druk til langt ud på natten og talrige og sporadiske romancer med mange forskellige kvinder, før det igen bliver morgen, og hele rumlen starter forfra.Ekstrabudene er Bukowskis debutroman og er den første af i alt fem semibiografiske romaner om Bukowskis alter ego Henry Chinaski. Romanen blev hurtigt en bestseller og cementerede Bukowskis renomme som en vigtig og vedkommende forfatter, der råt for usødet tegner et præcist portræt af det moderne samfund og det moderne menneske."Hvordan det går Chinaski, skal ikke røbes her, for der er måske nogen, der endnu ikke ved det. I så fald er det blot om at komme i gang med Ekstrabudene, der spræller uregerligt af styrke, humor og smerte i sit portræt af det marginaliserede USA.” – Tonny Vorm, Information“Den notoriske drukkenbolt Charles Bukowski skrev efter sigende denne debutroman på en måneds tid. Historien om hans tid som liderligt ekstrabud og postsorterer rummer al den ’ubarberede følsomhed med fartstriber i underbukserne’ som han afpudsede i de følgende, endnu bedre romaner og i sine mange, sejlivede digte.” – Kim Skotte, Politiken“Han snakker om fornedrelse og om at være udskud. Det er ligesom om, han er et udøvende eksperiment, som om han gør det med vilje. Han vil være dér nede på bunden for at opsnappe de ting, som os, der lever et normalt liv aldrig nogensinde oplever, ser, hører eller lugter. Men ensomheden er også et stort projekt for ham, også fordi det er et kolossalt tabu.” – Information“Ekstrabudene skal læses som den er skrevet – hurtigt og intenst. Og som sådan tilbyder den en ganske stærk og enestående læseoplevelse, der på sin egen særlige facon er både berusende, morsom og til tider poetisk.” – Kåre Moll Christiansen, Litteraturnu.dk“Bukowskis tørre humor og stærke karakterer, behændigt illustreret med kortfattet, enkel tale, gør romanen levende og tiltalende.” – The Guardian“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams og beatpoeterne flyttede i hver deres generation poesi hen imod et mere naturligt sprog. Bukowski flyttede den lidt længere.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review“Udspekuleret, ubønhørlig sjov og trist.” – ObserverCharles Bukowski (1920-1994), der ofte betegnes som kultforfatter, var en af efterkrigstidens mest markante amerikanske forfattere. Han beskæftigede sig i både lyrik og prosa med den hvide underklasse, og hans skrivestil er kendetegnet ved sin forening af rå beskrivelser, en poetisk tone og befriende sort humor. Han er især kendt for sine fem semibiografiske romaner: Ekstrabudene (1971), Alt forefaldende arbejde (1975), Kvinder (1978), Med det hele … (1982) og Hollywood (1989).Copyright © 1971 by Charles BukowskiProduced by arrangement with Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers LLC. All rights reserved.

Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed ?dirty old man,? Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and illuminating.In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer's most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff?a topic that allowed Bukowski to explore some of life's most pressing questions. On Drinking is a powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers.

A collection of columns, reviews, introductions, interviews, and previously uncollected stories revealing the method behind the madness and critical acumen of Charles Bukowski.

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterOne of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.

in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.

One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America.Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski's life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more.Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative - published posthumously, it's completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski's lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty.We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.

"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.

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.

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.

"People come to my door--too many of them really--and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away. . ."

The definitive collection of poems from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing have left a vivid markIlluminated by a resonant voice and conjuring the desperation and absurdity of being human, the perceptive poetry of Charles Bukowski transcends its particular moment to speak to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Taking on a wide range of subjects?from love to death to sex to writing?Bukowski's unvarnished poetry touches on enduring concerns while remaining sharply aware of the day-to-day. With his keen eye for the ridiculous and the troubling, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest facets of the human experience. Granular yet expansive, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace.This is the essential Bukowski.

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground--people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists. In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making.Hollywood is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid. It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol. And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition.

another comebackclimbing back up out of the ooze, out ofthe thick black tar, rising up again, a modernLazarus.you're amazed at your goodfortune.somehow you've had morethan your share of secondchances.hell, accept it.what you have, you have.you walk and look in the bathroommirrorat an idiot's smile. you know your luck.some go down and never climb back up.something is being kind to you.you turn from the mirror and walk into theworld.you find a chair, sit down, light a cigar.back from a thousand warsyou look out from an open door into the silentnight.Sibelius plays on the radio.nothing has been lost or destroyed.you blow smoke into the night, tug at your rightear.baby, right now, you've got itall.

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers.Edited by John Martin, the legendary publisher of Black Sparrow Press and a close friend of Bukowski''s, The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works from Bukowski''s long poetic career, including the last of his never-before-collected poems. Celebrating the full range of the poet''s extra-ordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a rich lifetime of experiences and speak to Bukowski''s "immense intelligence, the caring heart that saw through the sham of our pretenses and had pity on our human condition" (The New York Quarterly). The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both longtime fans and those just discovering this unique and legendary American voice.

The letters contained on this text are filled with passionate, literary and personal observation, providing an insight into both Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli.

Felines touched a vulnerable spot in the unfathomable soul of Charles Bukowski, the Dirty Old Man of American letters. On Cats brings together the acclaimed writer's reflections on the animals he so admired. Bukowski's cats are fierce and demanding?he captures them stalking their prey, crawling across his typewritten pages; waking him up with claws across the face. But they are also affectionate and giving, sources of inspiration and gentle, insistent care. Poignant yet free of treacle, On Cats is an illuminating portrait of this one-of-a-kind artist and his unique view of the world, witnessed through his relationship with the animals he considered among his most profound teachers.

Charles Bukowki's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of previously unpublished material?letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers?Bukowski 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 countercultural 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, levened with moments of grace, pathos, and intimacy.

A previously unpublished collection of work on the art of writing - by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers