Μπουκόβσκι: Επιλογή από το έργο του

by Charles Bukowski, Τσαρλς Μπουκόφσκι, Αλέξης Τραϊανός (Translator)

«Ζούσα παρέα με αρουραίους και ποντίκια και κρασομπούκαλα, και το αίμα μου κολλούσε στους τοίχους ενός κόσμου, που δεν μπορούσα να εννοήσω και μέχρι σήμερα δεν εννοώ.»
Charles Bukowski

Ο Charles Bukowski γεννήθηκε στο Άντερναχ της Γερμανίας το 1920, αλλά από δύο χρονών βρέθηκε στην Αμερική. Τα παιδικά του χρόνια τα πέρασε στο Λος Άντζελες όπου και τέλειωσε το τοπικό κολέγιο. Άρχισε να γράφει ποίηση σε ηλικία 35 χρόνων και δημοσίευσε την πρώτη του ποιητική συλλογή το 1961. Μέχρι το 1974 τύπωσε άλλες έντεκα ποιητικές συλλογές καθώς και δύο έργα με πρόζα. Κρατά μια στήλη της βδομαδιάτικης αντεργκράουντ εφημερίδας του Λος Άντζελες Open City με τον τίτλο Σημειώσεις ενός βρωμόγερου.

Genres: Poetry

65 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First 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.