Charles Bukowski

Prosegue la biografia in versi di Charles Bukowski. Dopo le intemperanze della prima giovinezza, Buk ci conduce per mano in stanze d'hotel, alle corse dei cavalli, davanti ai quadri erotici di un pittore francese, ai primi reading di poesia. Entrano nel suo universo amici insinuanti, profili di donne, voci che danno forma a improvvisi dialoghi esistenziali, che risalgono il fiume del passato, che sono a volte pruriti comici a volte insulti a volte parole di pietà. Ancora una volta emerge il Buk dilapidatore di tempo, di sesso, di scrittura, come se nel ritmo insaziabile della poesia egli continuasse a ritrovare tanti ganci che lo strappano e insieme lo tengono legato alla realtà.

Der Klassiker der Untergrundliteratur hat nichts von seinem anarchischen Witz und seiner rauen Wirkung eingebüßt. "Der Mann mit der Ledertasche" ("Post Office") ist Bukowskis erster und wichtigster Roman, mit dem er 1971 den Sprung von Dichtung zu Prosa vollzog und der ihn weltberühmt machen sollte. Vierzig Jahre nach der Erstveröffentlichung in den USA erscheint der Roman nun erstmals als Hörbuch, gelesen von Matthias Brandt.

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.