Donne

by Charles Bukowski

Milano, Sugarco, 1980, 8vo (cm. 19,5 x 12) brossura editoriale, pp. 303. Prima edizione italiana.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.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. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books

Charles Bukowski was 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. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.

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).

He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.

Reviews

[Filippo Santaniello · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un tour de force di gran bevute e gran scopate scritto con uno stile semplicemente di-vino

[Federico Silvestri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Donne è un libro che mi ha cambiato molto. Mi sono appassionato a Charles Bukowksy: un uomo dalla facciata superficiale, cruda ed arrogante, una facciata molto sottile che in realtà nasconde la profondità di un filosofo, un poeta o un’ artista dei piu sensibili. Un’empatia senza confini è il suo cavallo di battaglia per conquistare le donne anche nella peggiore delle situazioni, accompagnata a dimostrazioni altalenanti di intenso e vero romanticismo a momenti di puro cinismo. Bukowksy è un genio, uno degli ultimi veri e pochi Romantici vissuti.

[Lorenzo Danesi · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Donne: mi piacevano i colori dei loro vestiti; il loro modo di camminare; la crudeltà di certi volti; ogni tanto la bellezza quasi intatta di altri, totalmente incantevole e femminile. Ci battevano alla grande: pianificavano meglio le cose ed erano meglio organizzate. Mentre gli uomini seguivano il football professionistico o bevevano birra o giocavano a bowling, loro, le donne, pensavano a noi, rimanevano concentrate, ci studiavano, decidevano se accoglierci o scartarci o cambiarci o ucciderci o più semplicemente lasciarci. Alla fine poco importava: qualsiasi cosa facessero, noi rimanevamo comunque soli e alienati."

[giulia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mi vergogno personalmente a mettere più di 1 stella ma purtroppo penso le meriti

[Ian AQ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like how it ended, too many names to remember