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The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.

How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on...

Ein Aufbegehren gegen die Einsamkeit

1985 nimmt sich eine junge Pianistin in Neubrandenburg das Leben. Dreieinhalb Jahrezehnte später stößt die Schriftstellerin Helene Bukowski auf ihre Geschichte. Behutsam nähert sie sich Christina, sucht in ihrer Biografie nach Rissen und Erschütterungen, aber auch nach Augenblicken großen Glücks. Sie lernt einen Vater kennen, der in der Tochter seine eigenen Träume verwirklichen will, eine Mutter, die es liebt, zu fotografieren, und ein Klavier, das unverrückbar in der Wohnung steht. Bukowski folgt Christina nach Berlin, an die...

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.

From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor David Stephen Calonne provides historical context for these seemingly scandalous and chaotic tales, revealing the hidden hand of the master at the top of his form.

"The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have...