Author: Charles Bukowski
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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 the Second World War. His brutal father pretends to go to work everyday so the neighbours do not suspect he is unemployed, his mother is beaten by his father but remains always on his side, and his uncle is wanted by the police. In this unforgettable book, written with a complete absence of illusions or self pity, we witness a stoic fraternity between all the Chinaskis, and all the underdogs of that “other America”. / Una novela autobiográfica, contundente como un preciso uppercut, que nos muestra una visión bien distinta del Sueño Americano, una visión desde abajo, desde los pisoteados y humillados: la infancia, adolescencia y juventud de Henry Chinaski, en Los Angeles, durante los años de la Depresión y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un padre brutal que cada día finge acudir puntualmente al trabajo para que sus vecinos no sospechen que está en paro; una madre apaleada por el padre, que sin embargo está siempre de su parte; un tío a quien busca la policía; un mundo de jefes, de superiores aterrorizados por otros superiores. El joven Chinaski, algo así como un hermano paria de Holden Cauldfiel, el dulce héroe de Salinger en The Catcher in the Rye (al que Bukowski parece aludir en el título original Ham on Rye) tiene que aprender las reglas implacables de una durísima supervivencia. En este libro inolvidable, escrito con una ausencia total de ilusiones, se transparenta, evitando la autocompasión, una estoica fraternidad con todos los chinaskis, todos los underdogs de la otra América, de los patios traseros, los bares sórdidos, las oficinas de desempleo.
Pages: 288
Imprint: Anagrama
Format: Paperback
Collection: Argumentos
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