Fabulário Geral Do Delírio Cotidiano

by Charles Bukowski

Este livro é o segundo volume da obra Ereções, ejaculações e exibicionismos, do genial Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Depois de Crônica de um amor louco, o velho Buk descreve, nestes mais de trinta contos fortemente autobiográficos, suas desventuras, traumas, amores fracassados e prisões inesperadas. Eis toda a excitação frenética do escritor nascido na Alemanha e emigrado para os Estados Unidos que imortalizou o mundo marginal de Los Angeles, sua cidade de adoção. O olhar estrangeiro-nativo de Bukowski esmiúça o lado negro do sonho americano – e revela o anti-sonho –, um mundo de marginais, viciados, bêbados e prostitutas, dos quais só não se pode dizer que estão na sarjeta porque sempre decaem um pouco mais. São pessoas tal qual na vida real, retratadas de forma triste, divertida, escatológica e universal, em toda sua vulgaridade e realidade. Eis todo o gênio narrativo de Charles Bukowski, que, como John Fante, representa o último grito da geração beat e cujo humor cáustico foi comparado ao de Henry Miller, Louis-Ferdinand Céline e Ernest Hemingway.Confira os contos presentes neste volume:"Um .45 pra pagar o aluguel""Na cela do inimigo público número um""Cenas da penitenciária""O hospício logo a leste de Hollywood""Você aconselharia alguém a ser escritor?""O grande casamento zen-budista""Reencontro""Vulva, Kant, e uma casa feliz""Adeus, Watson""Os grandes poetas morrem em penicos fumegantes de merda""Breve temporada no chalé dos poetas""Cristos metidos a besta""Sensível demais""Curra! curra!""A cidade do pecado""Se quiser e gostar""Um dólar e 20 cents""Sem meias""Um bate-papo tranqüilo""Cerveja, poetas e mais papo""Dei um tiro num cara lá em Reno""Uma chuva de mulheres""Ruas de loucura noturna""Vermelho feito camarão""Olhos cor do céu""Uma para Walter Lowenfels""Notas de um candidato a suicida""Observações sobre a peste""Um bode"[...]

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Published January 1, 2007

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.