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Notes of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski

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Bukowski mixes his prose with personal anecdotes and downright ridiculous absurdity, like a train wreck of thought. By turns hilarious, disgusting, prosaic and profound, these vignettes of distilled humanity are somehow rendered all the more powerful for the squalor and the cheap sex and the shameless alcoholism.

He also exposes things some might wish they had never seen--prostitution, murder, abuse, rape, suicide, suicide by alcoholism, even necrophilia. This book is exactly that, a series of few dozens short essays that represent Bukowski’s most mischievous observations on society, some fictions, some weirdest true stories, some blurry between real or not, but mostly the greatest hits from the collection of his underground newspaper columns with the same name – Notes of a Dirty Old Man – for the Open City newspaper (which prompted the FBI to keep a file on him). I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately, I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths. As with anything written by Bukowski, I wouldn't recommend it to you if you're easily offended or overtly PC.The people walk with such an indifference I begin to hate them, but then again I've never really been fond of anything. His life would go downhill fast until his writing career became slightly successful and then go downhill again. He began his cycle of getting kicked out and moving into different homes and hotels (which is elaborated more on in Notes of a Dirty Old Man). So, I guess I chose a somewhat extravagant way to say that if an alien's first touch with humanity was through this book, they'd totally kill themselves without thinking.

I’m spoiled and used to sections and titles in short story collections now so we know how it’s organized, but this seems like total hodgepodge or possibly chronological by publication date. So in a sense Bukowski `celebrates' life and not wholly -wholly- leaves us a portrait of self destruction and nihilism. See him as he walks through a park absorbing images and smells, pausing every once in a while to take a closer look at whatever catches his attention. Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper that were collated and published by Essex House in 1969. I am leaving the original up because I think there is truth in what I said then and truth in what I say now.Along with the series Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook includes another deep look into Charles Bukowski's life.

Ma, quando si parla di donne, la visione è più che convenzionale, gli sterotipi di genere sono tutti lì. This is Bukowski at his visceral best - a collection of his columns originally published in 'Open City' in the 1960s.

an intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

His vivid, uncompromising depiction of the underworld of Los Angeles has achieved cult status as the ultimate in realist writing.Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. This collection of Bukowski’s columns for an underground LA newspaper epitomises his style of gritty realism. It is part autobiography, part crude comedy filled with alcohol, women and bizarre adventures, written in a 1960s style of conversation. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work.

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