ブコウスキー伝―飲んで書いて愛して [単行本]

Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, became legendary for his semi-autobiographical books about low-life America. Classic novels like "Post Office" and "Women" made this one-time bum and alcoholic rich and famous. This is a biography of Bukowski, whose life was depicted in the film "Barfly". --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

負け犬から一匹狼の人気作家へ。ダーティー・オールド・マンのクレイジー・ライフを生き生きと描く。実録ブコウスキーの生涯。最新決定版。未発表の貴重な写真、オリジナル画を満載。

負け犬から一匹狼の人気作家へ。悲しくも滑稽な、それ自体がとてつもなく素晴らしい小説である人生を生きたブコウスキー。そんなダーティ・オールド・マンのクレイジー・ライフを生き生きと描く。未発表写真なども収録。

Exhilarating, hilarious and often emotionally draining, this superb biography of the maverick, hard-bitten bard of the Los Angeles demimonde uncorks a potent brew of wild, antiheroic anecdotes. Sounes (Fred & Rose) often corrects Bukowskis version of events, without deflating the writer or losing sympathy for his often depressing life, from his sad, twisted childhood (complete with regular beatings) in Los Angeles to his discovery of both alcohol and literature as a teen. Dropping out of L.A. City College in 1940, Bukowski was classified 4-F, went on the road and worked odd jobs, all the while mailing poems and stories to little magazines. At age 27, Bukowski (1920-1994) had his first relationship with a woman, the alcoholic and routinely unfaithful Jane Cooney Baker, who became a prototype for his female characters. He wrote his first novel, Post Office (1971), in only three weeks, and his autobiographical screenplay for Barbet Schroeders film Barfly (1987) brought him, improbably, into the Hollywood circle. Sounes spent two years interviewing more than 100 people, including women in Bukowskis tangled love life, who provide intimate details. Peering nonjudgmentally down every avenue of grief and despair, Sounes improves on previous books on Bukowski by Neeli Cherkovski, Steve Richmond and Russell Harrison. After reading Souness account, it is difficult to agree with his subjects self-assessment that, despite a prolific output of over a thousand poems, six novels and several collections of stories, I wont be leaving much. Something to read, maybe. A wild onion in the gutted road. Paris in the dark. More than 70 illustrations, including R. Crumb art and several previously unpublished photos of key people in the poets life.
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A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing; and commentary from Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton, Howard Sounes has uncovered the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature. Illustrated with drawings by Bukowski and over sixty photographs, Charles Bukowski is a must for Bukowski devotees and new readers alike. As the Los Angeles Times noted, "Bukowski is one of those writers people remember more for the legend than for the work . . . but, as Howard Sounes shows in this exhaustively researched biography, it wasn't the whole story."
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Charles Bukowski-onetime bum, long-term alcoholic, and author of now-classic novels such as Post Office, Factotum, and Women-rose from obscurity to become world famous. His semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure and culminated in the making of Barfly, a Holly-wood film based on Bukowski's life. In this, the first major biography of Bukowski, Howard Sounes has drawn on years of exhaustive research-including new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, his family, and his many lovers, as well as unprecedented access to his private letters and unpublished writing-to reveal the extraordinary true story of the Dirty Old Man of American literature.

Illustrated with over sixty never-before-published photographs, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life also includes original drawings by Bukowski and unique contributions by friends, including Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, and Harry Dean Stanton. Interspersed with telling excerpts from Bukowski's poetry and prose, including work that has never been published, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is a must for Bukowski devotees and new readers alike. Howard Sounes was born in England in 1965 and currently lives in London. He has worked as a newspaper journalist in Britain and abroad and is the author of Fred & Rose, the best-selling book about the lives and crimes of mass murderers Fred and Rosemary West.

"Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is a generous tribute to Bukowski's genius and it clearly and truthfully captures the essence of Bukowski both as writer and man."-John Martin, Black Sparrow Press, Bukowski's editor/publisher

"With no shortage of anecdotes, pictures or big names, this [biography] is so thorough and sharp that it may as well be the last."-Graham Caveney, Arena

"A remarkable account of the poet laureate of Skid Row's bedeviled sojourn on planet Earth."-Iain S. Bruce, The Glasgow Herald

"This is the first in-depth biography of Bukowski and succeeds by pulling into focus the hazy image of the apocryphal barfly anti-hero . . . a picaresque read."-Nick Wyke, The Times (London)

"Wonderful . . . the first such serious and thorough Bukowski biography . . . An excellent book about a remarkable man."-Ross Fortune, Time Out

"A lively portrait of American literature's 'Dirty Old Man.'"-William Gargan, Library Journal

"The man who emerges from Sounes's work is one who shamelessly pursued his needs for beer, women and recognition-a man capable of tenderness, who always paid child support for his daughter and who resisted the seductions of belated, relished fame. This biography is an affectionate and thorough introduction that will not be rivaled for quite some time. Its effect is to revitalize rather than reduce Bukowski's work: poems and stories that help keep people alive."-Guy Mannes-Abbott, The Independent
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Howard Sounes was born in England in 1965 and currently lives in London. He has worked as a newspaper journalist in Britain and abroad and is the author of Fred & Rose, the best-selling book about the lives and crimes of mass murderers Fred and Rosemary West. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。