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Charles Bukowski, an eminent autobiographical author, offers us in this work another chapter of the life of his alter ego Chinaski. In Post Office he describes the 12 years he spent working in the sordid post office of Los Angeles. The book ends when...

This book compiles the first three titles starring the alcoholic misanthropist Casanova: Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego. In them we follow his youth among prostitutes, drunks and other creatures of the path of the losers while he dreams of being a writer and his...

This book adds together the last two novels of the five that Bukowski dedicated to his alter ego, Henry Chinaski. Ham on Rye addresses his childhood, adolescence and early youth in the Depression and the Second World War, and he brings us back to...

The stories collected here seem to have been extracted from the ulcerated intestines of their narrator, written between attacks of delirium, orgies, and alcoholic fantasies; using the crude language of the street like no one has done before him. These brutally funny chronicles of...

These stories, written with complete freedom for the underground magazine Open City, turned Bukowski into an instant celebrity, “a living legend” (New York Book Review), whose fame continued to grow to dizzying heights after the publication of his other books of short stories and...

The books here show Charles Bukowski's skill as a great short story writer, one who is a harsh portraitist of the urban underworld. With a cocktail of syncopated, visceral writing, black humour, uninhibited sex, and lots of alcohol, he outlines a sort of map...

This beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, his day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his...

Upon his death in 1994, Charles Bukowski left behind abundant archives of unedited material or material published in underground magazines. What has been brought together here is that which, according to John Martin, his editor from Black Sparrow Press, constitutes “the missing link in...

Henry Chinaski has always fought tooth and nail against the “establishment” and its infinite tentacles. But in Hollywood this is not going to be easy: John Pinchot, a crazed film director, has decided to embark on a project that will take the stories of...

Charles Bukowski’s stories, poems, and novels have left a mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence—letters to publishers, editors, and friends —the writer shares his insights on the art of creation. On Writing reveals an artist brutally frank about the absurdities of life—and...

Charles Bukowski became well known in Spain for his “stories of ordinary madness”, published in two volumes: Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and Fuck Machine, which won him immediate popularity. His work has provoked, among others, the following comments: “A master of anarchist satire. A living...

Here is an autobiographical novel which strikes as heavy a blow as a carefully aimed uppercut, showing us a very different side of the American Dream: the childhood, adolescence, and youth of Henry Chinaski in Los Angeles, during the years of the Depression and...

From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. / Inéditos...

Writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in dirty apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. At fifty, he is reveling...

In Los Angeles a very strange rumour abounds. A certain Celine, who wanders around bookshops inspecting the competition and looking for first edition copies of Faulkner, is none other than Louis Ferdinand, who escaped death in 1961 in Meudon. Nick Belane, a private detective...

The great city of Los Angeles is once again present as it always is in the writing of Charles Bukowski. Despite being located within the Californian paradise with its oranges, sunshine and wine, this is a hellish city. Bukowski has the attitude of a...