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2 | Charles Bukowski was a German-American novelist and poet. The bulk of his writing focuses on his everyday life as a working-class alcoholic in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. His work is minimalistic, such as his poems "Bluebird," "Nirvana," and "Dinosauria, We," as well as a few of the stories in ''Notes of a Dirty Old Man'', a collection of short pieces which originally appeared as a column in two local underground newspapers. He was also the author of the screenplay to ''Film/{{Barfly}}''. Bukowski died in 1994 at the age of 73. |
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4 | A BioPic directed by Creator/JamesFranco and starring Creator/JoshPeck has been filmed but hasn't found a distributor yet. |
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6 | "Nirvana" was adapted to music by Music/TomWaits and available on his album ''Music/OrphansBrawlersBawlersAndBastards''. |
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8 | !!Novels by Charles Bukowski |
9 | * ''Post Office'' (1971) |
10 | * ''Factotum'' (1975) |
11 | * ''Women'' (1978) |
12 | * ''Ham On Rye'' (1982) |
13 | * ''Hollywood'' (1989) |
14 | * ''Pulp'' (1994) |
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16 | !!Works by Charles Bukowski with their own pages include: |
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18 | * ''Film/{{Barfly}}'' (screenplay) |
19 | * ''Literature/HamOnRye'' (novel) |
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21 | !!Other works by Charles Bukowski contain examples of: |
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23 | * AllLowercaseLetters: Charles Bukowski uses only lowercase in his early works. |
24 | * TheAlcoholic: Henry Chinaski. |
25 | * AuthorAvatar: Henry Chinaski. |
26 | * BrilliantButLazy: "My ambition is handicapped by my laziness" pretty much sums his characters up. |
27 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's literary alter ego. |
28 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Bukowski’s robust writing style creates numerous self-referential redundancies and repetitions, some of which are outrageously obvious. |
29 | --> '' "In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."'' (Post Office) |
30 | * GreyAndGreyMorality: None of his works depict a truly good hero, instead they are full of characters who are all flawed and unlikeable to a varying degree. |
31 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''Hollywood'' is full of these, ranging from the relatively subtle and well-disguised (Creator/DennisHopper becomes Mack Austin, Creator/DavidLynch is Manz Loeb, Creator/MickeyRourke gets rebranded as Jack Blesdoe) to the ludicrously blunt ([[Creator/JackKerouac Mack Derouac]], [[Music/TomJones Tab Jones]], [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Francis Ford Lopolla]]). |
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