Nacido en Alemania, creció y vivió en Estados Unidos. Fue un escritor y poeta que dejando bien marcada su esencia en cada una de sus obras se le considera símbolo del Realismo Sucio y la literatura independiente. No seguía patrones y carecía de estructura única, lo cual le daba un carácter espontaneo, fresco y bastante profundo. El sarcasmo, la ironía, la melancolía y un profundo desapego son fijos en los trabajos de Bukowski.
Debido al acné y el rechazo que esto causo en su etapa adolescente, se refugió en la lectura lo que le concedió esa apertura mental y creatividad que lo caracteriza.
Bukowski era un genio, un genio borracho y algo depresivo, un genio decadente y a veces pesimista, un genio que con sus palabras y teniendo claro que la vida esa fugaz y pasajera, te abre una ventana hacia el disfrute de lo escrito, el humor negro y la pasión por una vida, que sin ser necesariamente feliz, es lo que tenemos y hay que disfrutarla.
Algunas de sus frases y poemas:
"Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. " "there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late" "there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late" "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them." "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone." "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!" "Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."
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