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.

Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

''The best poet in America'' Jean Genet''He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels'' Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there''s a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

A companion to On Writing and On Cats : A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." In On Love , we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. Bukowski is brilliant on love--often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. "My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough," he writes, "as the same cat crouches." Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.
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From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name. Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists. In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making. Hollywood is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid. It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol. And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition. Lire la suite Fermer

Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol. This revelatory collection of poetry and prose includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work, Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired.

A TIMELESS SELECTION OF SOME OF CHARLES BUKOWSKIS BEST UNPUBLISHED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated the very finest of this materialpoems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the countrymost of which will be new to Bukowskis readers and some of which has never been seen before. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowskis inimitable poetic styletough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music . He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque. The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town - a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton - and depict the darkest parts of human existence. Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement. In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art - his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.
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Literary Criticism. Reach for the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski's letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney.

On connait Charles Bukowski pour ses romans et nouvelles, mais beaucoup moins pour sa poésie. Et pourtant l'écrivain s'y est beaucoup attaché. En témoigne cet ensemble réunissant quatre recueils de poèmes écrits entre 1955 et 1973.


On y retrouve à l'état pur son humour souvent ravageur et désabusé, ses thèmes de prédilection et son style sans artifice, abrupte, direct, insolent qui nous laisse groggy. La quintessence de Buk.

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles

A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.

D'un côté, un écrivain brutal, provocateur, âpre, lucide, maudit... De l'autre, un dessinateur baroque, violent, visionnaire, pervers... "Bukowski" et "Schultheiss" regardent l'Amérique s'effondrer dans ses mythes. Fini Hollywood, Dallas, Play-Boy, les années Reagan et l'american way of life. Place aux taudis lépreux, aux banlieues sordides, aux destins alcoolisés de personnages ordinaires...