Bücher von Charles Bukowski

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Neeli Cherkovski was a close friend of Bukowski and is the author of Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (Random House, 1991)

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.

YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MANLow life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for the underground newspaper Open City. Perennially drunk, broke and in search of a woman, Bukowski takes on the guise of a wise fool as he ventures through America's seedy lowlife.

Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives

The perfect gift book for the literary cat lover - musings on the magical mystique of our feline friends, from American icon Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who's meant to be dead - but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow - which may or may not be real.

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

"if you read this after I am deadIt means I made it"-"The Creation Coffin"The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, 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.

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.

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.

"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.

Die Briefe von Charles Bukowski an seinen Onkel in Andernach am Rhein. Herausgegeben von der Charles-Bukowski-Gesellschaft zum zehnten Todestag 2004.

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 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.

Charles Bukowski hatte viele gute und schlechte Gründe, immer wieder zur Flasche zu greifen und so zieht sich denn auch das Thema Alkohol wie ein roter Faden durch sein Werk. Auch Schlechtes ist ihm in seinem Leben mehr als genug widerfahren: Eine schlechte, durch väterliche Brutalität überschattete Kindheit, schlechte und mies bezahlte Jobs oder ein schlechter Gesundheitszustand infolge eines jahr­zehntelangen, durch Alkoholabusus gekennzeichneten Lebenswandels, der einmal sogar in einem lebensgefährdenden Magendurchbruch endete. Er brauchte den Alkohol wie die Luft zum Atmen, als Muse, Motor und unverzichtbaren Partner bei der Freisetzung seiner schier überbordenden Fantasie und Kreativität.Der vorliegende Band enthält jede Menge erstmals auf Deutsch erscheinende Texte und darüber hinaus einige, die u.¿a. von Carl Weissner übersetzt wurden. In Gedichten, ­Kurzgeschichten, Interviews und Briefen gewährt der Dirty Old Man einen Einblick in das von Höhen und Tiefen begleitete Leben eines eingeschworenen Alkoholikers, der immer wieder verzweifelt versucht, sich von seinem Laster loszusagen, was ihm höchstens so lange gelingt, bis die Zeit für das nächste Sixpack gekommen ist.

»Wenn man mir die Hände abhackt, tippe ich eben mit den Zehen weiter«, so das Credo von Charles Bukowski, für den das Schreiben neben Alkohol und Frauen eine große Leidenschaft, ja ein »idiotischer Drang« war, dem er sich sein Leben lang weder entziehen konnte noch wollte. Zu seiner Alltagsroutine gehörten neben seiner Schreibmaschine sinfonische Musik, Zigarren und Bier, da das »die Lücken füllte, wenn es mit der Kreativität mal nicht so gut lief«.Neben Prosa und Lyrik verfasste Bukowski zwischen 1961 und 1974 unzählige »Notes of a Dirty Old Man« betitelte Kolumnen, die in L.¿A. Free Press und Open City sowie in Nola Express veröffentlicht wurden und häufig aufgrund ihres pornographischen und obszönen Inhalts keinen Eingang in seine Bücher gefunden hatten. Die in diesem Buch erstmals veröffentlichten Kolumnen thematisieren (häufig überaus zynisch) die Dynamik des Schreibens und die prekäre Situation eines Schriftstellers am Anfang seiner Karriere. In seinen Stories geht es um Dichterlesungen, Partys, Filmsets, heiße Blondinen und Bars ¿ auch hier steht die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Schreiben und dem Leben als Schriftsteller im Fokus.Die für seine Schriftstellerkollegen wie Doug Blazek, d. a. levy, William Wantling, Jory Sherman und Ernest Hemingway verfassten Rezensionen und Vorworte im zweiten Teil dieses Buches, sind nicht nur ein Beleg seiner profunden Kenntnisse der amerikanischen und klassischen Literatur, sondern auch ein Zeugnis seiner Skepsis und ablehnenden Haltung gegenüber dem literarischen Establishment.In seinen Interviews äußert sich Bukowski zu seinem ambivalenten Verhältnis zum Beruf des Schriftstellers und dem damit einhergehenden Ruhm, den er als befremdlich und wenig erstrebenswert erachtete. Und auch die ihm eigentlich verhassten Dichterlesungen bezeichnete er als »seelenzersetzend«, aber wenn das Honorar stimmte, ließ sich der Dirty Old Man nicht lange bitten, zog seine Show ab und musste nach mancher Lesung sturzbetrunken aus dem Saal getragen werden. Darüber hinaus gewährt uns Buk in einem der Interviews einen Einblick in seine Arbeit als Drehbuchautor für den von Barbet Schroeder realisierten Film Barfly und schildert seine erste (und für ihn überraschend angenehme) Begegnung mit dem Hauptdarsteller Mickey Rourke.

Zum 100. Geburtstag des geliebten, gehassten Skandal-Autors Charles Bukowski in der FISCHER Taschenbibliothek: »Kaputt in Hollywood«»Kaputt in Hollywood«, das sind apokalyptische Visionen, amerikanische Albträume, Protokolle der alltäglichen Hölle. Zehn Stories von einem Bukowski in Hochform: sehr realistisch, sehr brutal, sehr komisch.»Charles Bukowski ist eine deutsche Underground-Sehnsucht: am Rhein geboren - in Hollywood verglüht.«BILD

»Dante Baby, das Inferno ist da!« versammelt 72 bisher nur in kleinen »hard-to-find« Magazinen abgedruckte Gedichte sowie 26 Texte, die bisher keine anderen Leser hatte, als einige privilegierte Experten, denen die Manuskripte zugänglich waren und sind. Authentisch Bukowski: mal leidend, mal feiernd, mal wild, mal nachdenklich - »poems in all their raw glory«.