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1. Henry Charles Bukowski ( / buːˈkaʊski / boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. [4]
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. tags: fire, flame, isolation, laughter, loss, sacrifice. 7680 likes. Like “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 ...
Charles Bukowski was a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero, Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery. While some critics found his style offensive, others claimed that Bukowski satirized the machismo ...
Charles Bukowski was an American author known for his gritty and unflinching depictions of everyday life. His writing style, often categorized as "dirty realism," is characterized by its raw language, bleak humor, and unflinching portrayal of the underbelly of society.Bukowski's work often explores themes of poverty, alcoholism, and the struggles of the working class.
May 28, 2024 · Charles Bukowski (born August 16, 1920, Andernach, Germany—died March 9, 1994, San Pedro, California, U.S.) was an American author noted for his use of violent images and graphic language in poetry and fiction that depict survival in a corrupt, blighted society.. Bukowski lived most of his life in Los Angeles.He briefly attended Los Angeles City College (1939–41) and worked at menial jobs ...
Aug 14, 2015 · Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American novelist, short story writer and poet. Bukowski published his first story when he was 24 and began writing poetry at the age of 35. His writing ...
Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer.
Mar 6, 2005 · Adam Kirsch writes on the career of Charles Bukowski, whose low-life odyssey gave him an inexhaustible store of adventure and anecdote—the material for his fiction and poetry—and also a badge ...
Aug 14, 2020 · VITALE: Cassandra Baim is a 29-year-old writer living in Brooklyn. Her boyfriend has a tattoo of the cover art from one of Bukowski's poetry collections, so she decided to read the author's 1978 ...
May 29, 2018 · Charles Bukowski. A prolific and seminal figure in underground literature, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) is best known for poetry and fiction in which he caustically indicts bourgeois society while celebrating the desperate lives of alcoholics, prostitutes, decadent writers, and other disreputable characters in and around Los Angeles.. Born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, Bukowski emigrated to ...
