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Il 5 giugno 1960 Charles Bukowski riceve una lettera di rifiuto da parte di Sheri Martinelli, direttrice di Anagogic & Paideumic Review: è la miccia che fa esplodere tra i due sette anni di tumultuosa corrispondenza. A quell’epoca Bukowski ha pubblicato soltanto alcuni racconti e diverse poesie su riviste letterarie minori, ma non ha ancora compiuto il grande salto che gli consentirà – dieci anni dopo – di dedicarsi anima e corpo alla macchina da scrivere. Probabilmente se lei gli avesse inviato la classica lettera prestampata non ci sarebbe stato alcun seguito. Invece la cura pungente della sua risposta incita Bukowski a proseguire una particolarissima relazione epistolare. Sheri ha quarantadue anni, Charles quasi quaranta, e vengono da due mondi molto distanti: lei ex modella di Vogue, salutista, ispirata dai classici, musa di Ezra Pound e attirata dalla sfera metafisica; lui tutto fuorché salutista, privo di vincoli ed etichette, carnale. Cosa accomuna due personaggi così carismatici, ma diametralmente opposti? In uno scambio sempre più confidenziale e più vero, Bukowski rivela una cultura profonda – fatta anche di letture dei classici – che non sempre si evince dai suoi libri. Oltre a essere un importante strumento per approfondire la personalità del cantore degli emarginati d’America, questa raccolta offre un originale spaccato degli Stati Uniti in quegli anni, del contesto politico-sociale, dei diversi movimenti culturali che lo hanno caratterizzato.
- ISBN: 8823530105
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 408
- Data di uscita: 14-10-2022
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Fascinating because of the two clear divisions in the book. The letters Bukowski wrote to Martinelli BEFORE he realized he wasn't going to get in her pants, and then the letters after that sad realization. At first Buk is a praise-horse that Sheri can ride around, and he hardly chides her at all on
Aesthetics first, because I must. Kudos to Black Sparrow Press for producing this beautiful edition of “Beerspit Night and Cursing - The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967.” The binding is tight as a tick, the pages are printed on acid-free paper, and then you have thi Leggi tutto
These are some interesting letters to read and I think they show a fairly different side of Bukowski, but they didn't entertain me as much as the ones in the "Living on Luck" series. I think that the relationship between Bukowski and Martinelli was so close that there are gaps in the conversation th Leggi tutto
This book of correspondence between the the great poet and a woman who in the annals of time has gone down as a relative unknown, but in the moment served as muse to many creative people, is outstanding and intimate.
ชอบมาก ปู่บูคาวสกี้มีสไตล์การเขียนที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์เฉพาะตัว เน้นบทสนทนา ประหยัดคำ(คล้ายงานของ เฮมมิงเวย์) เล่าตรงๆ เนื้อหา ดิบ เถื่อน เซ็กส์ ร่วมเพศ รุนแรง เหล้ายา ผู้หญิง คือแมร่งมาครบ... อ่านจบภายในสองวัน เอาไปห้าดาวแมร่งเลย!!! Leggi tutto
Letters between Buk and Sherrie M. Quite boring actually. This is the most disappointing book I've read that had Bukowski's name attached to it. Definitely not a keeper...
brilliant.
A messy look into the lives of two folks that wrote letters to each other and never met, otherwise. I wrote a review of the book. You can see it here: http://www.curatormagazine.com/brett-...
Tried to read it 25 years ago, couldn't get through it. Tried again, still couldn't. I've read just about every published thing Bukowski's written and I like all of it, except this one.
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