Björn recenserade Postverket av Charles Bukowski
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4 stjärnor
So after reading Dickens for the first time, why not follow up with another supposed classic I've never read.
Bukowski is one of those authors I was pretty sure I knew how he would read just from all the times I've seen him compared to others; Hemingway, Waits, Burroughs, Johnson, Cave; booze, violence, dames, self-mythologizing; yada yada. And yeah, he delivers mostly what I expect, though not always in the way I expect. It's hard to deny the sheer force of his writing; you're swept into Buk- sorry, Chinaski's POV and his struggle to... I'm really not quite sure what we're supposed to take away. At one point in my life, I might have loved this tale of self-destruction. Call me a hypocrite, but as alternately engrossing, horriffic and heartbreaking as it is at times, part of me can't help but hope I've moved past admiring people for proudly wearing …
So after reading Dickens for the first time, why not follow up with another supposed classic I've never read.
Bukowski is one of those authors I was pretty sure I knew how he would read just from all the times I've seen him compared to others; Hemingway, Waits, Burroughs, Johnson, Cave; booze, violence, dames, self-mythologizing; yada yada. And yeah, he delivers mostly what I expect, though not always in the way I expect. It's hard to deny the sheer force of his writing; you're swept into Buk- sorry, Chinaski's POV and his struggle to... I'm really not quite sure what we're supposed to take away. At one point in my life, I might have loved this tale of self-destruction. Call me a hypocrite, but as alternately engrossing, horriffic and heartbreaking as it is at times, part of me can't help but hope I've moved past admiring people for proudly wearing their assholedom on their sleeve.
3.5/5. ESH. (Except Einar Heckscher. Rarely has a translator been so well suited.)