Absence of the Hero
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品牌: Bukowski
基本信息·出版社：CITY LIGHTS
·页码：300 页
·出版日期：2010年04月
·ISBN：0872865312
·International Standard Book Number：0872865312
·条形码：9780872865310
·EAN：9780872865310
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (19201994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. "Absence of the Hero" contains much of his earliest fiction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions are here: sex, booze, and gambling, along with trenchant analysis of what he calls "Playing and Being the Poet." Among the book's highlights are tales of his infamous public readings ("The Big Dope Reading," "I Just Write Poetry So I Can Go to Bed with Girls"); a review of his own first book; hilarious installments of his newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," including meditations on neo-Nazis and driving in Los Angeles; and an uncharacteristic tale of getting lost in the Utah woods ("Bukowski Takes a Trip"). Yet the book also showcases the other Bukowski-an astute if offbeat literary critic. From his own "Manifesto" to his account of poetry in Los Angeles ("A Foreword to These Poets") to idiosyncratic evaluations of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones, and Louis Zukofsky, "Absence of the Hero" reveals the intellectual hidden beneath the gruff exterior.Our second volume of his uncollected prose, "Absence of the Hero" is a major addition to the Bukowski canon, essential for fans, yet suitable for new readers as an introduction to the wide range of his work.
媒体推荐Bukowski, one of the most outrageous figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. "Absence of the Hero" contains much of his earliest fiction as well as a number of previously unpublished stories.
