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I sat there drinking and thinking, hey, you’re chinaski, chinaski the legend. Throughout the 1960s, after a return to los angeles, bukowski’s reputation grew rapidly, particularly within the underground literary scene. This is where bukowski (and his fictional alter ego henry chinaski) wastes 12 years of his life.

Fittingly, For A Poet Whose Reputation Was Made In Ephemeral Underground Journals, It Is On The Internet That The Bukowski Cult Finds Its Most Florid Expression.

Hundreds of women in this place, hundreds of them. Henry charles hank chinaski is the literary alter ego of the american writer charles bukowski, appearing in five of bukowski's novels, a number of his short stories and poems, and the films barfly and factotum. Eliot’s “vertical poetry,” bukowski’s is a “horizontal poetry” that photographs the jagged surfaces of society and forces the reader to peer into the baser regions of human.

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As with most legends, the facts are somewhat different: Although much of chinaski's biography is based on bukowski's own life story, the chinaski character is still a literary creation that is constructed with the veneer of what the writer adam kirsch calls a pulp fiction hero. works of fiction that feature the character include c… I'm in downtown los angeles at the united states post office terminal annex.

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