チャールズ・ブコウスキー

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked …

くそったれ! 少年時代はアメリカの作家で詩人のチャールズ・ブコウスキーによる半自伝的小説。

もはや伝説となった無頼作家ブコウスキーが、酒と女、競馬と放浪に明け暮れた20代当時の自身の生活をもとに書き上げた長編小説。彼の小説ではおなじみの主人公チナスキーが、職に就いてはすぐに辞め、バーで出会った女と刹那的な関係を繰り返し、安宿から安宿へと酒を片手にアメリカ全土をふらつき回る。自堕落な生活を送りつつも、時折ふと脳裏に浮かぶ「おまえはどうせロクな人間にならない」という父親の声。 …

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star …

『パンク、ハリウッドを行く』1989年、black sparrow press刊)。

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . …

『パルプ』は、詩人・作家であるチャールズ・ブコウスキーが最後に執筆した小説。ブコウスキーの死の直前、1994年に出版された。

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983 by Black Sparrow Press. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.