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Charles Bukowski

AmericanAugust 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994Countercultural Fiction

Charles Bukowski was a Los Angeles underground writer whose fiction and poetry of skid row, horse racing, and cheap rooming houses found a vast international audience. Post Office and Factotum are his major novels.

Works

  • Post OfficeNovel depicting the bleakness and absurdity of working at the post office→
  • FactotumPicaresque novel following a man through jobs, women, and urban alienation→
  • WomenNovel chronicling a man's serial affairs and relationships with various women→
  • Ham on RyeSemiautobiographical novel of a young man's experiences during Depression-era poverty→
  • HollywoodNovel about a screenplay writer's cynical pursuit of success in Hollywood→

Related

John Fante·Henry Miller·Jack Kerouac
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