チャールズ・ブコウスキー

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 …

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories is a collection of anecdotal short stories by American author Charles Bukowski. The stories are written in both the first and third-person, in Bukowski's trademark semi-autobiographical short prose style. In keeping with his other works, themes include: Los Angeles …

The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship is a collection of extracts from the journals of Charles Bukowski, spanning 1991 to 1993. The book was first published in 1998 with illustrations by Robert Crumb. The diary entries record the last few years of Bukowski's life, in which he talks about …

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。 …

"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 …

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

『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。

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。