Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
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Poet, novelist, short story writer
Best known for poetry
‘Poet laureate of skid row’
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5hhqvNDak8
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Sentences- short, concise
Word choice- vulgar. Influenced by John Fonte.
Diction & tone- Satirical, cynical.
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Characters:
Drunks, whores, petty criminals
Antiheroes
Loneliness, selfishness, poverty, apathy
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No metaphors
Straightforward descriptions
“He walked inside and flipped on the light. A dozen roaches crawled away into the wallpaper and chewed and moved and chewed. There was a telephone, a pay phone. He picked it up…”
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Tone: cynical, satirical, self-critical
“Some piece of wisdom would be inscribed on [his artwork] like: ‘Green heaven come home to me/ I weep grey, gray, grey, gray…’ Valoff was intelligent. He knew there were two ways to spell grey.”
“He replied, wait a minute, most writers, well, I meet them and they are complete assholes and horrible human beings. I wrote back, you’re right, I’m a complete asshole and a horrible human being. O.K., he answered…[I] am coming to check you out.”
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Barfly: autobiographical screenplay written by Bukowski
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgKAOdPx58