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“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.

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, .

Siedziałem, patrzyłem na czerwonego mercedesa i dumałem o Cindy. I świerzbiło mnie, żeby wziąć się do działania. Pomyślałem, że może warto zakraść się do domu. Może zdołam podsłuchać, jak Cindy rozmawia przez telefon? Może wpadnę na jakiś trop? Pewnie, że było to niebezpieczne. Sam środek dnia. A ja uwielbiam ryzyko. Sprawia, że uszy mi dzwonią, a zwieracz w tyłku mocniej się ściska. Żyje się raz, no nie? Chyba że jest się Łazarzem. Biedny skurwiel, musiał zdychać 2 razy. Ale ja jestem Nick Belane. Po jednej kolejce zsiadam z karuzeli. Świat należy do odważnych.

Faktotum to powieść złożona z krótkich rozdziałów wypełnionych przygodami tytułowego "totumfackiego", który nieustannie poszukuje zajęcia, a do kwestionariuszy kolejnych pośredniaków wpisuje nieodmiennie: "dwa lata college'u, specjalność: dziennikarstwo i sztuki piękne".

W tej książce fascynuje niezwykła, niemal magiczna realność. Sytuacje i zdarzenia, które opowiada nam Bukowski, mają fantastyczną moc: są prawdziwe, nawet jeśli się nie wydarzyły.

Charles Bukowski, amerykański pisarz niemieckiego pochodzenia pozostawił po sobie bogaty dorobek w postaci ponad 30 książek, tomów prozy i poezji. Otaczająca go atmosfera skandalu i prowokacji, emanująca z jego prozy postawa niepokornego buntownika, obalanie obyczajowych tabu, dosadny, często wulgarny język sprawiły, że stał się kultowym pisarzem undergroundu, idolem mas i pokolenia bitników. W powieści "Hollywood", będącej znakomitym literackim wizerunkiem słynnej "fabryki snów", Bukowski obnażył kabotyństwo filmowego świadka, drwiąc bezlitośnie z obowiązujących w nim konwencji i reguł gry, które obudziły jego odrazę.

Este gigantesco maratn sexual es un proceso de aprendizaje, de conocimiento, en el que Bukowski no escatima sarcsticas observaciones de s mismo, y en el que el machismo de textos anteriores queda seriamente erosionado; todo ello unido a incontables borracheras.Bukowski parace sugerir que las alternativas – una carrera ms respetable, literaria o la que fuese – son an ms deshumanizadas.

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

"I am not in a contest. I never wanted fame or money. I wanted to get the word down the way I wanted it, that's all. And I had to get the words down or be overcome by something worse than death." So writes the late Charles Bukowski in his entry for 6/23/92 (12:34 AM). The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship, a delightful, posthumous gathering of excerpts from Bukowski notebooks, is loaded with such direct ruminations about writing, death, money, humanity, and how the author located meaning and value in his daily life and work. Richly illustrated with gritty drawings by Robert Crumb, Bukowski's legions of readers will want to add this prose volume to their collections. Autograph seekers, race track habitués and the dull thud of the nags ("I go to the track almost reluctantly. I am too idiotic to figure out any other place to go...I guess getting my ass out of here forces me to look at Humanity and when you look at Humanity you've GOT to react." p.66), Hollywood types, classical music and classy authors, poets and poseurs, all subjects frequently addressed by Bukowski over the course of his long, productive career, shape the book's contents. One observes Bukowski at home, going to the mall with wife Linda, driving the LA freeways, at his computer mulling over what does and doesn't add up. Charles Bukowski scrapped and fought for his rewards and, as "The Captain Is Out To Lunch" makes indelibly clear, it was honest writing and its publication, not money or fame, that empowered him. Ultimately he achieved acclaim and a fair measure of financial success, after establishing a beneficial relationship with John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, a committed independent publisher who enabled him to reach a world-wide audience of readers. They valued his work during his lifetime and continue to anticipate the thinning stream of books still coming out several years after his death.

"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."