Bukowski reflects on writing, his literary mentors, and life experiences. Abel Debritto, a scholar of the writer, has traced his unpublished correspondence and selected the letters in which he addresses his craft and his art.
They include letters to magazine editors, his editor, John Martin, writers such as Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Hilda Doolittle, critics, and friends. In them, he reflects with keen insight on the writing process and allows us to delve into the inner workings of the publishing business. Reading them offers a stimulating autobiographical journey that reveals a nuanced Bukowski, beyond the archetype; an author obsessively devoted to writing, with a solid background in reading and a very clear vision of his ideas, which leads him to complain about some publishing attempts to tame his raw and direct style.
The book, which begins in 1945 and ...read more
