Hank

by Neeli Cherkovski

Enfant délaissé, adolescent paria, adulte marginal, voici Charles Bukowski (Hank pour les intimes) tel qu'en sa splendeur, raconté par un ami de longue date. A la quarantaine, il s'évade d'un quotidien médiocre, écrivant et buvant ; ses textes circulent dans les milieux littéraires d'avant-garde. Puis se succèdent les liaisons orageuses, l'alcool encore, et la notoriété, mondiale cette fois avec {le Postier} et plus encore le film {Barfly}. Le biographe de Bukowski, écrivain lui-même, nous montre comment en soixante-dix ans d'existence le grand Hank est devenu le poète rebelle qui grogne : "J'aime l'anarchie des cités, la crasse, l'air vicié, le danger de la rue. Ce qui me plaît à moi, c'est les klaxons qui gueulent et les trottoirs sales"... L'oeuvre de Charles Bukowski est publiée aux Editions Grasset.

384 pages, Paperback

Published November 18, 1993

About the author

Neeli Cherkovski (born Nelson Innis Cherry) grew up in Los Angeles, California and moved to San Francisco in 1974, where he was a member of the vibrant North Beach literary community. He has lived with Jesse Cabrera since 1983. Cherkovski has published many books and his work has been translated into many languages. His papers are archived at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He is a recipient of an American Book Award, a Josephine Miles National Literary Award, and is a San Francisco Public Library Literary Laureate. A Greek translation of Cherkovski's selected poems will be published in 2024 and his book of portrait poems will be published by City Lights Books in 2025. He is currently working on a memoir of his life, as well as a collection of literary essays.