Notes Of A Dirty Old Man

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  • Paperback
  • 9780872860742
  • 18 januari 2001
  • 204 pagina's
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Charles Bukowski

"Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) is een Amerikaans-Duitse schrijver. Zijn boeken gaan vooral over de gewone, arme Amerikaan. Belangrijke thema's in zijn rauwe, absurdistische verhalen zijn alcohol en vrouwen. In veel landen (waaronder Nederland) zijn Bukowski's boeken (meer dan zestig) zeer populair. Behalve romans schreef Bukowski veel korte verhalen en gedichten. Bekende boeken zijn: Post Office (Postkantoor), Ham on Rye (Kind onder kannibalen) en Factotum. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Charles Bukowski.

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Bukowski takes on the guise of the wise fool in this novel, describing the futility and beauty of life.



A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.

"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 . . ."

"Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life . . ." —Publishers Weekly

"These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." —Greg Davidson, curiculummag.com

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). Other Bukowski books published by City Lights Publishers include More Notes of a Dirty Old Man, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, and Absence of the Hero. He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.

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