In Italia è stato pubblicato quasi subito, ma anche qui la fama è arrivata in ritardo, solo che quando è arrivata è letteralmente esplosa. Direi che fosse il periodo a cavallo tra gli ’80 e i ’90. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-06-24 19:48:27 Boxid IA140411 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Los Angeles Donor The author lived the life of his character, Hank Chinaski, and much of that life was as an alcoholic. Bukowski wrote many novels but was better known as a poet in his lifetime (1920-1994). Someone called him the “Poet Laureate of Lowlife.” Post Office is the first novel written by the German-American author Charles Bukowski, published in 1971. The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States Postal Service. The film rights to the novel were sold in the early 1970s, but a film has not been made thus far. Bukowski's writing always fills me with inspiration. His short, seemingly uncombed, sentences penetrate my brain like spears, flow off the tongue with ease, and never fail to leave something behind, long after I am done with the book. I admire his style, his honesty, his raw nature, and his unique approach when it comes to portraying life in its purest. He does not try to impress with elaborate sentence structure or flowery vocabulary, he does not try to romanticize life. His views, his images, his words...are all real; as real as it gets.

All in all, a fitting description of not caring about anything, the manifesto of an atheist, pragmatist, alcoholic, a womanizing, small worker, who is trying to make the best out of the situation while avoiding any unnecessary effort, a perfect average joe antihero. The autobiographical book covers the years Bukowski spend working in the post office. Bukowski’s alter ego, Henry Chinaski, starts as a substitute mail carrier. The novel begins, “It began as a mistake.” He hears from a fellow drunk that the post office hires carriers during the Christmas season to handle the extra mail load and at first it seems an easy gig.Biography [ edit ] Family and early years [ edit ] Bukowski's birthplace at Aktienstrasse, Andernach If you are not successful in your personal life, If you are frustrated with your job and if you don’t have anything going for you and you want to see the downfall of Henry Chinaski then please read Post Office by Charles Bukowski. 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 (1994), Screams from the Balcony (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992).

The Volcano Choir song "Alaskans" features a recording of Bukowski reading a poem on French television. [47] Some people might refer to his style as “conversational,” others, “raw.” To me, his writing was simple, like the everyman telling his tale. If the everyman is a pervy drunk. I like that. You know what else I like about Bukowski? He doesn’t overstay his welcome. I like a man who knows when to shut the hell up. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my cue. Ecco Press continues to release new collections of his poetry, culled from the thousands of works published in small literary magazines. According to Ecco Press, the 2007 release The People Look Like Flowers at Last will be his final posthumous release, as now all his once-unpublished work has been made available. [33] Writing [ edit ] By the little things I mean the stuff that's easy to hide but shouldn't be. Little physical ailments, little frustrations, little reasons to smile, little reasons to complain, the little things that fill a day and make a person. Writers including John Fante, [34] Knut Hamsun, [34] Louis-Ferdinand Céline, [34] Ernest Hemingway, [35] Robinson Jeffers, [35] Henry Miller, [34] D. H. Lawrence, [35] Fyodor Dostoevsky, [35] Du Fu [35] Li Bai, [35] and James Thurber are noted as influences on Bukowski's writing.La differenza tra dittatura e democrazia è che in democrazia prima si vota e poi si prendono ordini, in dittatura non dobbiamo sprecare il nostro tempo andando a votare. Post Office covers Bukowski’s life from around 1952 through 1955, when he resigned from the post office, to his return in ’58, then to his final resignation in ’69. Because of the author’s willingness to use coarse language we get some original one-liners like “Moto was grinning from eyebrow to asshole.” And “I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory.” He also has an original opening sentence “It began as a mistake.” As you can tell from his photo, the author lived the life he wrote about and still survived to age 73 (1920-1994). He was born in Germany but his parents moved to Los Angeles when he was three. Bukowski was a prolific writer. He wrote six novels (three were made into movies) as well as dozens of plays, screen scripts and collections of poetry. If you're looking for flowery, intricate prose and a happy ending, then you certainly won't find that here. Instead, you'll find a disjointed prose, which is achingly blunt, slightly nasty, but most of all; it's real, and that is the main selling point of this novel. I mean, nobody likes it sugar-coated, do they?

This book is quite dark and it feels like your served Charles Bukowski’s time at the post office through Henry Chinaski. POST OFFICE by Charles Bukowski is a great book. Raw, vulgar and a little nasty -- and in that way it reminds me another novel I just finished reading -- and one I recommend -- PERMANENT OBSCURITY by Richard Perez. That novel is also gritty and blunt and “real.”Dobozy, Tamas (2001). "In the Country of Contradiction the Hypocrite is King: Defining Dirty Realism in Charles Bukowski's Factotum". Modern Fiction Studies. 47: 43–68. doi: 10.1353/mfs.2001.0002. S2CID 170828985. Pop punk band The Wonder Years mention Bukowski in their song "Woke up Older" on the 2011 album Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: