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 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a...

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground--people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was...

Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling. von Bukowski, Charles

"Kobiety" von Charles Bukowski, im Englischen bekannt als "Women", ist ein halb-autobiografischer Roman, der das Leben des alternden Schriftstellers Henry Chinaski beschreibt. Chinaski, ein Alter Ego Bukowskis, navigiert durch eine Reihe...

One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the...

A collection of short stories by the cult American underground writer, whose books have sold over 160,000 copies. They focus on the themes that regularly recur throughout his work, from bar culture and alcoholism to gambling, sex and...

»Die Trauerfeier für meinen Vater lag mir im Magen wie eine kalte Bulette.«»Der Mensch ist der Abschaum des Universums«, heißt es gleich in der ersten Geschichte, und die restlichen 35 geben Gelegenheit, diese Theorie zu überprüfen....

A book of previously uncollected short pulp fiction, encompassing the entire range of Bukowski's talent, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern fiction. von Bukowski, Charles

"The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems" ist eine posthum veröffentlichte Sammlung von Gedichten des amerikanischen Autors Charles Bukowski. Die Gedichte in diesem Band spiegeln Bukowskis charakteristischen Stil wider, der...

A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby...

During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971) and Factotum (1975). He is one of America's most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and low...

South of No North von Bukowski, Charles