Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles.[4] His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City.[5][6]
Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. As noted by one reviewer, "Bukowski continued to be, thanks to his antics and deliberate clownish performances, the king of the underground and the epitome of the littles in the ensuing decades, stressing his loyalty to those small press editors who had first championed his work and consolidating his presence in new ventures such as the New York Quarterly, Chiron Review, or Slipstream."[7] Some of these works include his Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window, published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and better known works such as Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame. These poems and stories were later republished by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/Ecco Press) as collected volumes of his work.
In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife".[8] Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal ... [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero."[9]
Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings, despite his work having received relatively little attention from academic critics in the United States during his lifetime. In contrast, Bukowski enjoyed extraordinary fame in Europe, especially in Germany, the place of his birth.
Art mi alma
Stand News 立場新聞
翻譯其作品是大禮讚
Major works[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Post Office (1971), ISBN 978-0061177576
- Factotum (1975), ISBN 978-0061131271
- Women (1978), ISBN 978-0876853917
- Ham on Rye (1982), ISBN 978-0876855591
- Hollywood (1989), ISBN 978-0876857656
- Pulp (1994), ISBN 978-0876859261
Poetry collections[edit]
- Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (1960)
- It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963) (title taken from Robinson Jeffers poem, "Hellenistics")
- Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
- At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
- Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 story Window (1968)
- A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
- The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
- Fire Station (1970)
- Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972), ISBN 978-0876851395
- Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 (1974)
- Maybe Tomorrow (1977)
- Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977), ISBN 978-0876853634
- Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979), ISBN 978-0876854389
- Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981), ISBN 978-0876855263
- War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 (1984)
- You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)
- The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988), 978-0876857335
- Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)
- People Poems (1991)
- The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992), ISBN 978-0876858653
- Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996), ISBN 978-1574230024
- Bone Palace Ballet (1998)
- What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. (1999)
- Open All Night (2000)
- The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps (2001)
- Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way (2003), ISBN 978-0060527358
- The Flash of the Lightning Behind the Mountain (2004)
- Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
- Come on In! (2006)
- The People Look Like Flowers at Last (2007)
- The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951–1993 (2007), ISBN 978-0061228438
- The Continual Condition (2009)
- On Writing (2015)
- On Cats (2015)
- On Love (2016)
- Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017), ISBN 978-0062656520
Short story chapbooks and collections[edit]
- Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
- All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966)
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
- Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) ISBN 978-0-87286-061-2
- South of No North (1973), ISBN 978-0876851906
- Hot Water Music (1983)
- Bring Me Your Love (1983)
- Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983)
- Prying (with Jack Micheline and Catfish McDaris) (1997) ASIN: B000I92IS0
- Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays (2008) ISBN 978-0-87286-492-4.
- Absence of the Hero (2010)
- More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011)
- The Bell Tolls For No One (CityLights, 2015 edition)
- On Drinking (2019)
Nonfiction books[edit]
- Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); expanded (1995)
- The Bukowski/Purdy Letters (1983)
- Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters (1993)
- Living on Luck: Selected Letters, vol. 2 (1995)
- The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998), ISBN 978-1574230598
- Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, vol. 3 (1999)
- Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondense of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli (2001)
- Sunlight here I am: Interviews and encounters, 1963–1993 (2003)
- On Writing Edited by Abel Debritto (2015), ISBN 978-0062417404
- The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing Edited by David Stephen Calonne (City Lights, 2018) ISBN 978-0872867598
主な作品[編集]
短編集[編集]
- 『町でいちばんの美女』 The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories 1972(青野聰訳 新潮社、1994 のち文庫)
- 『ありきたりの狂気の物語』 Tales of Ordinary Madness 1972年(青野聰訳 新潮社、1995 のち文庫)
- 『ブコウスキーの「尾が北向けば・・・」―埋もれた人生の物語』 South of no North 1973年(山西治男訳 新宿書房、1998)
- 『ブコウスキー・ノート』 Notes of a Dirty Old Man 1969年(山西治男訳 文遊社、1995)
- 『ブコウスキーの3ダース』 Hot Water Music 1983年(「ホット・ウォーター・ミュージック」山西治男訳 新宿書房、1993 のち「ブコウスキーの3ダース」改題)
- 『オールドパンク、哄笑する チャールズ・ブコウスキー短編集』(鵜戸口哲尚訳.ビレッジプレス、2001)
長編[編集]
- 『ポスト・オフィス』 Post Office 1971年(坂口緑訳 学習研究社、1996 のち幻冬舎アウトロー文庫)
- 『勝手に生きろ!』 Factotum 1975年 (都甲幸治訳 学習研究社、1995 のち文庫、河出文庫)
- 『詩人と女たち』 Women 1978年(中川五郎訳 河出書房新社、1992 のち文庫)
- 『くそったれ! 少年時代』 Ham on Rye 1982年(中川五郎訳 河出書房新社、1995 のち文庫)
- 『パンク、ハリウッドを行く』 Hollywood 1989年(鵜戸口哲尚、井澤秀夫、ビレッジプレス、1999年)
- 『パルプ』 Pulp 1994年(柴田元幸訳 学習研究社、1995 のち新潮文庫、のちちくま文庫)
詩集[編集]
- 『モノマネ鳥よ、おれの幸運を願え』 Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 1972年(『ブコウスキー詩集 2 (モノマネ鳥よ、おれの幸運を願え)』中上哲夫訳.新宿書房,1996)
- 『指がちょっと血を流し始めるまでパーカッション楽器のように酔っぱらったピアノを弾け』 Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit 1992年(『ブコウスキー詩集 指がちょっと血を流し始めるまでパーカッション楽器のように酔っぱらったピアノを弾け』中上哲夫訳.新宿書房,1995)
エッセイ・伝記[編集]
- 『ブコウスキーの酔いどれ紀行』 Shakeapeare Never Did This 1979年(中川五郎訳 河出書房新社、1995 のち文庫)
- 『死をポケットに入れて』(中川五郎訳、河出書房新社、1999 のち文庫)
写真集[編集]
- 『ブコウスキー・イン・ピクチャーズ』 Bukowski in Pictures 2000年
映像作品[編集]
- 『町でいちばんの美女/ありきたりな狂気の物語』TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS (1981) 原作
- 『魅せられたる三夜』CRAZY LOVE (1987) 原作
- 『バーフライ』 Barfly 1989年 (脚本)
- 『つめたく冷えた月』 Lune Froide 1991年 (原作)
- 『ブコウスキー:オールドパンク』 Bukowski : Born into This 2002年 (ドキュメンタリー)
- 『酔いどれ詩人になるまえに』 Factotum 2006年 (原作、『勝手に生きろ!』より)
伝記[編集]
- ハワード・スーンズ 『ブコウスキー伝―飲んで書いて愛して』中川五郎訳 河出書房新社、2000年
脚注[編集]
外部リンク[編集]
- 画像
- An Introduction to Charles Bukowski
- Extensive online database of Bukowski's work
- The Beat Page on Charles Bukowski
- A critical look at Charles Bukowski’s poem "My First Affair With That Older Woman"
- These Words I Write Keep Me From Total Madness
- The Buk - A Bukowski overview
- Blue Neon Alley - Charles Bukowski directory
- Three Charles Bukowski Poems 'Remixed' by Hyperlexic
- Lune Froide on IMDB
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