Try to defend Bukowski's ouvre avoiding: >talking about

protip: i cant

He explores unashamed primalism, which is unspoilt because of that lack of shame.

He also incorporates a brand of psychology which a lot of people find relatable. You'll probably realise a lot of people in your life are similar to characters of his, and his stories emulate those personalities so that you might reflect on them.

i liked it.

That's stupid because his lifestyle and life is the subject of his books. That doesn't disqualify him as a writer, faggot

>>7666417
œuvre

>>7666538
>He explores unashamed primalism, which is unspoilt because of that lack of shame
OK, I'll take that. But in all of his novels he portraits that same shit in the same way. It ends up being boring.
>>7666552
>That's stupid because his lifestyle and life is the subject of his books. That doesn't disqualify him as a writer, faggot
It does if he can't tell his life in an aesthetically attractive way. I just say basing all your literary value on your real life is a shitty trick. Most Bukowski fans end up talking about what that nigga lived instead of the virtues of his writing.

>>7666625
Yes, his work is very redundant. Read one or two books and that's Bukowski.

That guy looks like a hobo

>>7666417
a dionysian in dystopically apollonian world

>>7667257
>But of coarse

see ya later

>>7666538
>primalism
Hahahahha

I read it as a meaningful insight into a certain historical time period. I can understand some authors who have a word for everything forget the raw immediacy of the life we lead. He's also the only one who comes close to the witty banter I hear on the train every day. True literature is the corpus of slang and bathroom art.

>>7666625
>I just say basing all your literary value on your real life is a shitty trick.

No you dont. Not once has one of you faggots called out Joyce for bitching about muh conflicting religious ideals in any of his stories. The only difference is you want flowery prose not something straight forward.

Cheap criticism.

he's ugly and reveled in it. a lot of people don't understand the kind of life you have to create when you're truly ugly, especially when all you want to do is to fuck women

>>7667328
"Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else."

>>7667318
Fag, you ain't gettin shit. If Joyce wrote and portraited his themes (which are obviously much fruitful, deep and wide than Bukowski's shit) like shit was a teen diary, he would be as shitty as Bukowski is.

>>7667328
>>once again, talking about his lifestyle
Dude...

>>7667341
obviously he's right but it takes some time being ugly before you truly realize that

>>7667346
every social interaction and situation arises from the fact that he's drunk and ugly. that's the dynamic. it's an intrinsic part of his writing

>>7667370
>every social interaction and situation arises from the fact that he's drunk and ugly. that's the dynamic. it's an intrinsic part of his writing
And that's the main reason why his writing is shit.

>>7666417
His best work was his poetry, and I doubt anyone can argue that he wasn't a legitimate poet.

I didn't like his novels myself.

>>7667375
I don't feel particularly strongly about him, he was funny at times and his poems are fairly nice. for me it was refreshing to read someone who understood what being ugly is like

Why should I have to defend my enjoyment of something? Maybe it just "is what it is" and appeals to me for personal reasons.

More pertinently, I'd like to see anyone try to defend posting on /lit/ as a productive use of one's time.

>>7667415
Damn, then get out of /lit/ son.
You'll be happier

>>7667342
>deep and fruitful themes

Yes because fear of god, adolescent hormones / angst hasn't been done to death.

>>7666417
the poetry i have read has been sensible and humble
like that swan poem

>>7667415
You can smoke crack if you want to, but don't expect to not be treated like a filthy junkie if you do.

He's personally relatable and often funny. If you think all writing needs to be aesthetic, you're a bit of a cunt, to be honest.

>>7667557
You've never read Ulysses, have you?

Joyce's artistic ideal was elevation of the mundane. Bukowski's was wallowing in a puddle of his own excrement slurry.

>>7667736
Excuse you but I am a highly experienced reader of such aesthetes as Flambeau, etc, etc, etc, and if I engage in the dilettante dalliance, literary light reading of Charles Bukowski -- who, in truth, by paternity of John Fante traces a lineage to Dosteovsky and a distant kinship to his majesty James Joyce -- I am free and indeed would be close minded and bigoted to ignore and not enjoy for enjoyment's sake such rugged, primal joys as my visceral loins allow.

>>7667770
I have only read Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante, to be honest, so I am not completely qualified for this conversation. The point of analogy, though, is both authors are writing partially fictionalized, dramatized experiences of their own lives, and although most authors probably do the same to an extent, it's not so blatant and it's not so much inundated with the scum and filth of real life. Fante in Bandini, though, I think does partially redeem the mundane ugliness of life and that makes him more like Joyce, and Bukowski does just revel in his own filth.

I poured some scotch for the two of us. Jan grabbed me by the balls. "I'll be late," I said. "You haven't fucked me all day. I need a good fucking."

"A man's gotta work." Jan bit into my cock. I screamed. "Okay, okay!" Jim was waiting by the front desk by the time that I arrived at work. "I'm gonna have to let you go, Chinaski." "Okay."

>>7666552
>>7667257
>>7667318
>>7667342
>unironically using "fag" or "faggot" as an insult
>having this level of vocabulary
>trying to fit in
>on a lit board
>>/b/

>>7667770
>>7667820
Fante's Ask the Dust is much more of a forerunner to Bukowski, not Wait Until Spring, Bandini. Even then the differences are vast. To me, Bukowski's novels come across primarily as an attempt at being Henry Miller.

>>7667980
I've only read Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. The gist I got from that, though, is that the emptiness of such an existence, and it's far more extreme (a quick, glib and insufficient summary, I realise). The gist I got from Bandini is the poetry of ordinary life, even in all its ugliness. Charles Bukowski exists within that tradition of realism, where these authors try to depict real life in its excesses, deprivations, ugliness, depravity as well as the sweet moments, the touching beauty and that, and for that, Bukowski can be likened to Fante easily as well as Henry Miller, although pretty much everyone is copying Dostoevsky, to be honest. Bukowski just lives life for what it is, shit and ugly and sometimes enjoyable, and he writes about it occasionally for his own glorification. He's simple as anything but he emerges out of a pretty complex literary tradition.

>>7667890
you sure saved all of those gay people from their problems

>>7668071
He's right. Its below all standards of good expression, not to mention good behavior towards others.
The fact that we're on the internet and 4chan at that shouldn't make this notion ridiculed despite its fruitfulness. Why? Because its the truth.

>>7667747
Yes. All i havent read of Joyce is Finnegans Wake.

Did i forget cuckoldery too to your list of fruitful topics?

>>7668110
You sure are mature

>>7666417

His novels describe simply and succinctly the experience of living as an outsider who chases the feeling of being connected.

Like Moby Dick, in its structure and obsessive digressions, enables the reader to feel the tediousness and all consuming passion of Ahab's whale hunt , as though he were actually on the Pequod, Bukowski's Ham on Rye lets us experience the journey of the tormented Hank Chinaski.

His poetry is diverse enough to warrant multiple "defenses", but I'd say it's beautiful and offers comfort to the lonely and unwanted as well as solace for those overwhelmed by their animal desires.

Post Office was a good book and the rest were pretty meh, I couldn't even get through Women. But he probably wouldn't give a fuck who said that, us or if it was fucking Harold Bloom or something. And I think that's why I like Post Office cause it's pretty much just him, even the parts that make you roll your eyes cause he's trying to prove how hardcore he was, you can see so easily that that's him embellishing. I dunno the book is just unapologetic and that was impressive enough for me.

There are many wonderful things to experience reading Bukowski.

When some workmates followed him up to a roof top to fight him and he knew he couldn't take them but took his shirt off anyway and fought and took a beating, that's fucking sad and I teared up. Especially how stuff like that happened routinely to him. But he always got up and kept going.

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>tfw i look like a younger version of bukowski
>some random customer at my old job pointed this out to me and then said ''he's a great writer''
i had to take my break and have a cigarette after this


just fuck my shit up senpai

>>7666417
It's relatable, funny and it cheers me up.

>>7667291
stupidest post in the thread

>>7666555
Thanks for clarifying. Sweet trips!

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>>7666417
Bukowski has a poor reputation on this forum, but he's my favorite. Bukowski channers probably spend more time on other forums because most of us have settled the great literary debates. In other words, we don't need them. We have everything we need.

>>7669987
fuck

>>7669968
>>unapologetic
Bukowski's best trait. Too many writers are guilty of feeling as if they need to justify or explain their actions. Bukowski cuts straight to the core and the germ of his stories.

>>7669987
>>7671458
I saw the Ghost of Bukowski walking around my work place the other day. He was the age in OPs pic, less pockmarked with slicked hair and a lime green shirt.

I felt like saying something. I'm glad wasnt fired.

>>7672324
All I need to do is see my dad.