Buks favorite authors and composers
Heres a further list of authors who Buk liked-taken page xii of the book "Charles Bukowski :Sunlight Here I am" edited by David Stephen Calonne which is well worth getting and contains key interviews at different stages of his life.Here is the list
Carson mcCullers (the heart is a lonley hunter which is great)
Friedrich Nietzsche (have not read)
Arthur Schopenhauer (have not read)
Antonin Artraud (have not read)
J.D.Salinger
Sherwood Anderson (have not read)
Franz Kafka
John Fante
D.H.Lawrence (have not read)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Knut Hamsun
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Henry Miller (although i thought Buk said he found it difficult to read him-i certainly found it difficult to read him !)
William Saroyan (have not read)
Ernest Hemingway (have not read)
Ivan Turgenev (have not read)
James Thurber (have not read)
Maxim Gorky (have not read) (i thought Buk said he liked early Gorky but i may be wrong)
John Dos Passos (have not read)
ee cummings (have not read)
Robinson Jeffers (have not read)
Stephen Spender (have not read)
W.H.Auden (read some)
Giovanni Boccaccio (have not read)
Conrad Aiken (have not read)
Ezra Pound (have not read)
Li Po (have not read)
Catullus (have not read) (never heard of him ?)
and his fav composers were as follows
Bach
Beethoven
handel
mahler
Mozart
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Stravinsky
Wagner
Maybe if some of you have read the authors above which i have not read you could point out to me the best books of theirs to get to read first.
cheers
ack
p.s. check out my new MSN web site where you can post Buk related poems and storys even if you were only inspired to write after reading Buk
called
Bukowski's goatee
and to be found at
http://groups.msn.com/bukowskisgoatee/poetry.msnw
be good to hear from you thier
ack
p.s.. let me know if i have missed anyone -I know he also loved "the singing detective" (english) t.v. series which was written by (the english writer) Dennis Potter maybe because the guy in it had a terrible skin decease.