Hello guys,
I'm Andrea (male), an italian guy of 40 living in Rome, Italy. I discovered Bukowski later in life, I just read "Factotum" and now I've just begun to read "Post office". My English level is advanced even though I have some problems from time to time with american slang (I needed to search for the "soup" in "Post office" and what it meant, even though that is just part of "Bukowski's English") so, apart from this made up words which make the unique style of this author, I'd like to ask you, native speakers, if in Bukowski books you think the language is manipulated only to this extent, purely stylish, or do you think there is also, consciously, some bad grammar in order to create more real characters? Actually I don't think there is really such bad grammar, namely, grammatical errors made on purpose, but being English such a worldwide language and evoling the colloquial language so quickly, I can never tell for sure. I'm just curious about this, I searched on the internet but so far I found nothing regarding a possibile volontary use of bad grammar, thank you.
I'm Andrea (male), an italian guy of 40 living in Rome, Italy. I discovered Bukowski later in life, I just read "Factotum" and now I've just begun to read "Post office". My English level is advanced even though I have some problems from time to time with american slang (I needed to search for the "soup" in "Post office" and what it meant, even though that is just part of "Bukowski's English") so, apart from this made up words which make the unique style of this author, I'd like to ask you, native speakers, if in Bukowski books you think the language is manipulated only to this extent, purely stylish, or do you think there is also, consciously, some bad grammar in order to create more real characters? Actually I don't think there is really such bad grammar, namely, grammatical errors made on purpose, but being English such a worldwide language and evoling the colloquial language so quickly, I can never tell for sure. I'm just curious about this, I searched on the internet but so far I found nothing regarding a possibile volontary use of bad grammar, thank you.