Bücher von Charles Bukowski

Henry Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature.

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.

The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century

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.

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.

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.

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

This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'.

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol 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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

"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.

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.

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.

Die Katzen-Anthologie des Schriftstellers Charles Bukowski im attraktiven Geschenkbuchformat (9,2 x 14,4 cm). Passt in jede Hand- und Hosentasche.Charles Bukowski liebte Pferderennen, Frauen, das Trinken und Katzen. In dieser Anthologie sind alle Texte über Katzen versammelt.