A veces te sientes tan solo que tiene sentido

by Charles Bukowski, Eduardo Iriarte (translator)

Genres: Poetry

364 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2024

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

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

La "cruda" poesía de Charles Bukowski en acción. Una colección de poemas directos, sencillos e intensos, que refleja la continua lucha que afrontamos todos entre los sueños y la realidad. El amor, la familia, la educación, la libertad, el fracaso, el rechazo, la soledad: esta es la crítica a la sociedad que a todos nos toca y de la que nadie saldrá vivo.

[Idoia · Rating 4 out of 5]

La poesía de Bukowski es tremendamente entretenida: directa, ágil y sin artificios, se lee sin darte cuenta. Su aparente sencillez es engañosa, porque logra ser profunda desde lo cotidiano y compleja precisamente por la cercanía con la que retrata la soledad, el fracaso, el deseo y la rutina.

Aunque la figura del autor no termine de convencerme, no puedo evitar sentir debilidad por su escritura. Hay una honestidad cruda y una vulnerabilidad incómoda que atrapan, incluso cuando incomodan. Bukowski demuestra que lo ordinario también puede ser profundamente poético.

[Vaquita lectora · Rating 4 out of 5]

''a veces lo único que necesitamos para poder seguir solos
son los muertos
haciendo vibrar las paredes
que nos encierran''.

[Iker Falcón · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crudo, duro, fantástico

[Christina Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mi escritor favorito. No defrauda.

[diego moreno · Rating 5 out of 5]

este y la enfermedad de escribir me volvieron fangirl de un alcóholico misógino hijueputa asqueroso