![]() ![]() Bukowski died in 1994 of leukemia, with his posthumous reputation only growing larger and heightened by the well-received documentary "Bukowski: Born into This" (2003) and the 2005 indie adaptation of Factotum, starring Matt Dillon as Chinaski. Embraced as a rebellious literary crank in his later years, Bukowski had his moment of widest appeal in 1987 when his autobiographical script "Barfly" became a lauded movie starring Mickey Rourke as Chinaski. In 1971, Bukowski's first novel, Post Office, was published by Black Sparrow Press, introducing readers to his thinly veiled alcoholic alter ego Henry Chinaski, who would carry most of his subsequent novels, including Factotum (1975) and Ham on Rye (1982). Des saouleries, des prostituées, des chambres crasseuses, des boulots minables. When Bukowski started writing in earnest during the 1950s, it was mostly in the form of poetry that dwelt on the subjects of women, alcohol and daily drudgery. En loccurrence Chinaski, lalter ego de lécrivain, qui nous raconte ici à la première personne une vie derrance, de La Nouvelle-Orléans à Los Angeles, de New York à Philadelphie. He had a rough working-class childhood in Los Angeles and found a series of mundane jobs as a young adult. ![]() The great omission in American life is solitude. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. An author and poet fascinated with the dark underbelly of the American dream, Charles Bukowski is renowned for his blunt, scrappy work. For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. ![]()
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