Women

Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, the author of more than forty books, including novels, poems, essays and short stories. Despite the sometimes shocking naturalism, his texts are full of lyricism, even a kind of sentimentality. The novel "Women" was written by him on the wave of popularity and contains a lot of Bukowski's signature "tricks": self-irony, an abundance of sexual scenes, the energy of the plot. The hero of the book is 50 years old, his name is Henry Chinaski, and he is the author's constant alter ego. The novel is a series of more than frank sexual scenes, which are united by the main thing - the hero's endless love for his women, admiration for them and rudely sincere admiration. A rebel and a romantic, not wanting to fit into any framework, despising any rules - this is the image that arises in everyone who reads the books of Charles Bukowski. Those who hear music in his deliberately brutal prose and poetry, who discern poetry behind the mask of a cynic and foul-mouthed person, will love him forever. Bukowski, it seems, did not care whether he was heard. He went his own way, despising refined people and refined, emasculated art. "While men watch football, or drink beer, or hang out at bowling alleys, they, these women, think about us, concentrate, study, decide whether to accept us, throw us out, exchange us, kill us, or just abandon us."