Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery.
However, rather than justifying or glorifying his life style, he satirized the machismo attitude through his routine use of sex, alcohol abuse, and violence. ...
@Nautilus1972 You're missing the point. He's not advocating alcohol consumption. If you'd read any of his stuff you would see that his life was a pretty grim enterprise, that would've been unbearable if he wouldn't have been a drunkard. That's all he's saying. Also, he wasn't the only great autho...
@lottewonder
Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery.
However, rather than justifying or glorifying his life style, he satirized the machismo attitude through his routine use of sex, alcohol abuse, and violence. ...