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Chargement... Notas de um velho safado (original 1969; édition 2002)par Charles Bukowski
Information sur l'oeuvreJournal d'un vieux dégueulasse par Charles Bukowski (1969)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. C'est en 1967, dans le magazine anticonformiste Open City, qu'un poète presque inconnu commença de publier une chronique régulière. Avec une brutalité rarement égalée, doublée d'une superbe indifférence au scandale, il y exprimait sa révolte contre la société américaine, le pouvoir, l'argent, la famille, la morale. L'alcool, le sexe, les échos d'une vie marginale et souvent misérable y étaient brandis comme autant de signes de rupture. Depuis lors, l'auteur des Contes de la folie ordinaire, du sud de nulle part, de Pulp, disparu en 1994, est devenu célèbre. Ce Journal, ici édité dans une nouvelle traduction et dans sa version intégrale, n'est pas seulement un des sommets de son oeuvre, c'est un classique de la littérature contestataire, qui conserve, aujourd'hui encore, toute sa fraîcheur. ( )
I got into bed and read my own stories or whatever they were and I enjoyed them. Once I have written a poem and go back to it, I only get the sense of vomit and waste... But the stories, as I laid there in bed, I rather liked. Rotten thing to say, what? I do suppose it was the gathering of experience between covers ghostly which cuckolded me. Reading the life-days and nights of my life I wondered how I could possibly still be alive and walking around now?... Re-reading them, stories and fantasies, I found them wondrous and flaming. I thought, Jesus, there hasn’t been a short storyteller this good since Pirandello. At least since then. It’s crappy to say, but I think that the book is worth reading. And that the unborn librarian virgins, 200 years hence, will come in their flowered panties, recognizing the power, after my damned dumb skull has become a chickenshit playground for subnormal worms, gophers, other underworld creatures. Contient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door--too many of them really--and knock to tell meNotes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away . . ." "Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life . . ." --Publishers Weekly "These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." --Greg Davidson, curiculummag.com Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. 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, includingPulp (Black Sparrow, 1994),Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), andThe Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). Other Bukowski books published by City Lights Publishers includeMore Notes of a Dirty Old Man,The Most Beautiful Woman in Town,Tales of Ordinary Madness,Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, andAbsence of the Hero.He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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