Recent content by sknapp

Buk usually is labeled as "realist" or "dirty realist" by critics specialized on him. Even though I tend to agree with this when it comes to Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye and Hollywood, Pulp reads to me like a surrealist novel, or at least a novel heavily influenced by surrealism. Russell...

I discovered Bukowski 5 years ago. I had already read some of his poems, but I still hadn't felt "the fire", maybe because I had read the translations (I'm not a native English speaker). But when I first started reading Post Office, it was as if I had left a mist, I finally could look around and...