On Writing - Rilegato

Charles Bukowski

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ISBN 10: 1782117229 ISBN 13: 9781782117223

Casa editrice: Canongate Books, 2015

Riassunto

'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him . . . There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.' Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to. Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy. In the previously unpublished letters to editors, friends and fellow writers collected here, Bukowski is brutally frank about the drudgery of work and uncompromising when it comes to the absurdities of life and of art.

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"A laureate of American low life" (Time)

"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels" (Leonard Cohen)

"The best poet in America" (Jean Genet) --Jean Genet

"Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable" (The Times) --The Times

"The thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right" (Sean Penn) --Sean Penn

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Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

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• Editore: Canongate Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782117229
• ISBN 13: 9781782117223
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Redattore: Abel DeBritto