Knihy autora Charles Bukowski


Charles Bukowski bol americký spisovateľ. Je známy aj pod prezývkami ako Hank, Buk. Vo svojich dielach vystupoval pod menom Henry Chinaski. Narodil sa v nemeckom mestečku Andernach, vyrastal v Los Angeles, kde prežil 40 rokov. Bukowski viedol zaujímavý život, raz bol dokonca zadržaný vo vyšetrovacej väzbe pre podozrenie z vyhýbania sa vojenskej službe. Vystriedal veľa zamestnaní. Pracoval na pošte takmer 10 rokov. O tejto etape života napísal román Poštový úrad. Svoj prvý príbeh vydal vo veku 24 rokov, aktívne však začal písať až Keď mal 34 rokov. Vydal viac ako 45 kníh básni a próz. Bukowského knihy sú príbehmi obyčajných ľudí, ukazujú ich rutinný život taký vzdialený ideálu amerického sna. Napísal knihy ako Faktótum, Poštový úrad alebo Príbehy obyčajného šialenstva.


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Women

Women

Charles Bukowski, Virgin Books (2007)
Low-life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of 50, he is living the life of a rock...

Low 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... Zobraziť viac

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Pulp: A Novel

Pulp: A Novel

Charles Bukowski, Virgin Books (2007)
This is Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's...

This is 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... Zobraziť viac

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Factotum

Factotum

Charles Bukowski, Random House (1992)
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless dunk, drifts around America form one dead-end job to another, from one...

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next.... Zobraziť viac

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On Cats

On Cats

A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers."The cat is the beautiful devil."Felines touched a vulnerable spot in Charles Bukowski's crusty soul. For the writer, there was... Zobraziť viac

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The Rooming House Madrigals

The Rooming House Madrigals

The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work... Zobraziť viac

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Hollywood

Hollywood

Charles Bukowski, Canongate Books (2007)
Canongate Books: Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and...

Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter... Zobraziť viac

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Post Office

Post Office (e-kniha)

"e;It began as a mistake."e; By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his... Zobraziť viac

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Women

Women (e-kniha)

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star ri... Zobraziť viac

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The Pleasures of the Damned

The Pleasures of the Damned

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was¿and remains¿the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-... Zobraziť viac

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Pulp

Pulp

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Zobraziť viac

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On Love

On Love

Charles Bukowski, Canongate Books (2016)
Canongate Books: In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating...

In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here ... Zobraziť viac

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Essential Bukowski

Essential Bukowski

Charles Bukowski, Ecco (2016)
Ecco: Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and...

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture... Zobraziť viac

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Ham On Rye

Ham On Rye (e-kniha)

Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther. Los Angeles Times Book Review In what is widely hailed as the best of his ma... Zobraziť viac

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Dangling in the Tournefortia

Dangling in the Tournefortia

There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure. Zobraziť viac

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Play the Piano

Play the Piano

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author... Zobraziť viac

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Post Office

Post Office

Charles Bukowski, Random House (1992)
Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer,...

Charles Bukowski's debut novel introduces his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office job supports his life of beer, one-night stands and race-tracks... Zobraziť viac

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