Post office
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«Non potevo trattenermi dal pensare, dio, l’unica attività dei postini è di ficcare dentro le lettere e l’uccello. Questo è il lavoro che fa per me, oh sì sì sì.» Ma il paradiso sognato da Henry Chinaski, il leggendario alter ego di Bukowski, viene brutalmente smentito dalla realtà quando, assunto dall’amministrazione postale americana, si ritrova con la sacca di cuoio sulle spalle a girare in lungo e in largo attraverso la squallida periferia di Los Angeles. Profondamente deluso dalla monotona routine quotidiana e insofferente ai rigidi regolamenti della macchina burocratica, Chinaski si consola affondando le sue frustrazioni nell’alcol e trovando rifugio tra le morbide braccia di donne più sole di lui. Tra clamorose sbornie, azzardate puntate all’ippodromo e «movimentate» nottate in motel sgangherati, Chinaski riuscirà a «guadagnarsi» il licenziamento e a farsi riassumere, ma solo per licenziarsi definitivamente, inorridito e disgustato da quell’immenso ufficio postale che, poi, è la vita stessa.
- ISBN: 8850246978
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 192
- Data di uscita: 06-07-2017
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Okay, I can already hear the “booooos” from the Mitchellites saying “how can you give Cloud Atlas two stars, but you give THIS four stars?” I will tell you how. It’s simple really. I thought Cloud Atlas was “okay,” whereas I “really liked” this one. That’s all there is to it. So here we go... This bo Leggi tutto
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Every single life is just a drop in the ocean… The ocean, look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We’re like those fish, only we’re up here. One bad move and you’re finished. It’s nice to be a cha Leggi tutto
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Post Office, Charles Bukowski Post Office is the first novel written by Charles Bukowski, published in 1971 when he was 50 years old. In Los Angeles, California, down-and-out barfly Henry Chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier; he quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the track, then bec Leggi tutto
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Why is reading Bukowski so much more enjoyable when you've been drinking? Easy: because everything's much more enjoyable when you've been drinking. Still, for however much the man's life and writing was informed by the bottle, it was informed by a lot of other things as well, and working for the U.S. Leggi tutto
[Edited for typos and spoilers 4/25/22] The author lived the life of his character, Hank Chinaski, and much of that life was as an alcoholic. Bukowski wrote many novels but was better known as a poet in his lifetime (1920-1994). Someone called the author the “Poet Laureate of Lowlife.” The main charac Leggi tutto
COMINCIÒ PER SBAGLIO US Post Office Cominciò per sbaglio è l’incipit di questo breve romanzo (tutti i romanzi di Bukowski sono brevi) che è l’esordio narrativo di Bukowski (1971) ed è il mio primo incontro con lui. Come si sa Charles Bukowski giunse alla fama tardi. Prima si potrebbe dire che abbia vis Leggi tutto
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