Robert Sudół Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Revolving around themes of alcoholism, gambling, sex, and violence, this short story collection demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and mastery of visceral language and depiction of seamy underworlds.Bukowski's writings have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France, where he is published by the great publishing houses), Bukowski is critically recognized as one of America's greatest realist writers.

Knjiga sadrži piščeva razmišljanja o poznatim temama (piće, konjske trke...), kao i monologe o ličnostima kao što su Arto, Paund i Rolingstonsi. Drugi značajni radovi sadrže eksperimentalni deo, izmišljeni susret sa njegovim herojem Džonom Fanteom; jednu odličnu kritiku o Hemingveju; snažnu, autobiografsku "Ispovest starog pokvarenjaka"; nekoliko izlaganja o svojoj estetici, koja otkrivaju neočekivano obrazovan um iz, na izgled, ne predrerano ozbiljne produkcije...

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

A vast number of people have become enthralled with the story of the nineteenth-century French priest who, in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees, discovered something which enabled him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. Based on more than ten years of research, this book presents an inquiry into this enigma.