Charles Bukowski Book Set (3 Books: "The First Beauty in Town", "Women", "Post Office")

A set of books by Charles Bukowski (3 books: "The First Beauty in Town", "Women", "Post Office"). Charles Bukowski is a cult American writer of the 20th century, whose European popularity has always outstripped the American one (in Germany alone, the lifetime circulation of his books exceeded two million), 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. Bukowski is rightfully considered a master of the short form, and his collection "The First Beauty in Town", which is a kind of two-volume collection with the classic "Stories of Ordinary Madness", is a vivid confirmation of this: bringing his signature mastery of words to incredible perfection, Bukowski takes his lyrical hero - a womanizer and a drunkard, an obvious alter ego of the author - through all the circles of modern hell. 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 dynamics 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 explicit 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, unwilling to fit into any framework, despising any rules - this is the image that arises in everyone who reads Charles Bukowski's books. Those who hear music in his deliberately brutal prose and poetry, 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. "Post Office" is a fresh version of the novel, updated by translator Max Nemtsov. For Henry Chinaski, the author's alter ego, the post office is hell, where he ended up of his own free will. And in the underworld there is no peace: you have to fight off annoying residents waiting for non-existent shipments, wind kilometers through unfriendly terrain, listen to complaints, avoid additional work. And there is no way out, and the melancholy crushes, from which there is no salvation - except women and alcohol. Never before in literature before Bukowski's "Post Office" did the post office seem such a simultaneously terrifying and enticing place.