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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive on its own terms."—Chinaski/Bukowski, responding to a woman who has organized his poetry reading and is surprised to find him rather nice and “normal” in person. In Post Office Charles Bukowski describes the life he had working in a post office through his alter ego Henry Chinaski. If you like to see a man throw his life away from gambling, drinking, Obsessing over women, and hating his job then this one is for you. So does he get credit here for brutal honesty or is it just more of the same reader abuse? Bukowski is more miserable here than in previous books: Gardner, Eriq (October 30, 2014). "James Franco Settles Lawsuit Over Charles Bukowski Biopic". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 3, 2023. Main article: The Last Straw (2008 film) Death and legacy [ edit ] Henry Charles Bukowski Jr.'s grave in Green Hills Memorial Park

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Bluebird" is claimed to be the first country song inspired by Charles Bukowski to reach Number 1. [48]Willman, Chris (July 27, 2020). "Miranda Lambert on Finally Reclaiming the No. 1 Spot With 'Bluebird': 'I Knew I Was Delivering Great Music' ". When I started reading literature seriously, I was already mature enough. But I knew since a very young age that books get into your mind. As a child, I was a comic book lover. And those comic- heroes used to get into my head; I was behaving like them when I was alone. You should always read good books. That was a piece of advice. I followed it to date. Calonne, David Stephen. Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am—Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993. Northville, Mich.: Sun Dog Press, 2003. Guide to the Charles Bukowski Manuscript. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. By 1960, Bukowski had returned to the post office in Los Angeles and began work as a letter filing clerk, a position he held for more than a decade. In 1962, he was distraught over the death of Jane Cooney Baker, his first serious girlfriend. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her death. [22] 5124 DeLongpre Avenue, Los Angeles, now Bukowski Court, where Bukowski resided from 1963 to 1972

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We’re forced into absurd lives, against which the only sane response is to wage a guerrilla operation of humor and lust and madness"—Chinaski/Bukowski Biography [ edit ] Family and early years [ edit ] Bukowski's birthplace at Aktienstrasse, Andernach Duval Jean-François (2002). Bukowski and the Beats followed by An Evening at Buk's Place: an Interview with Charles Bukowski. Sun Dog Press. ISBN 0-941543-30-7. Factotum continues the adventures of Chinaski. Unemployed, hungover, trying to make it as a writer, Chinaski falls for Jan, another barfly. The novel traces the course of their relationship and documents Chinaski’s failures in work, love, and life. Director Bent Hamer’s 2005 film adaptation of the novel, a film starring Matt Dillon as Chinaski, was a great success, bringing the novel to a new generation of readers. Women American post-hardcore band Chiodos named their second album after one of Bukowski's books of poetry, Bone Palace Ballet.Even in this sort of book, I found a poetic paragraph to share with, you must know that Hank Chinaski is also a poet, apart from alcohol and women he writes poems in between. We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

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The ocean," I said, "look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.”Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. Oh, it’s a cesspool, all right, Buk’s life, played for dark comedy, with Bukowksi/Chinaski the central comi-tragic figure, but too often at the expense of women, though several of them also mistreat him as he mistreats them. American band Red Hot Chili Peppers reference Bukowski and his works in several songs; singer Anthony Kiedis has stated that Bukowski is a big influence on his writing. [ citation needed] In the author’s own unique style, he writes what is a semi-autobiographical account based on his own experiences working at mundane jobs with the United States Post Office. he is aware of his flaws and what he's doing wrong, yet he just accepts it like he can't influence it