PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
From the bookface's Charles Bukowski Society: Provokationen in Briefform
True enough.A shallow review on the German translation of On Writing and on Bukowki's writing in general.
The beginning is prejudiced and ridiculous, you're right, but the major part of the review (on The Bell Tolls For No One) is surprisingly good, almost as if it has been written by someone else. By someone who did actually understand one or two things and who appreciates Bukowski's writing."Eigentlich geht es bei ihm immer nur um Sex. Und ums Saufen. Okay, er war schon eine tolle Nummer, wie er besoffen durch Talkshows torkelte oder sich bei Lesungen einen gut gefüllten Kühlschrank auf die Bühne stellen ließ. Doch mittlerweile ist viel von dem, was für seine Welt stand, aus der Mode gekommen: Pferderennen, Dosenbier und den harten Knochen geben."
Lucky coincidence:both books, the German translations of On Writing and The Bell Tolls For No One, are available in my local bookstore