Pulp - Charles Bukowski - Novel
"Son of a bitch, man is born to conquer fatigue every inch of ground. Born to fight, born to die. "
This is a book Charles Bukowski, a book is not any, it is not like books that are usually used to reading.
It 's a short novel, the size may also be classified as "short story" is the story of a Los Angeles detective, Nick Belan, "as straight detective in Los Angeles, to be precise. Belan has three marriages behind him, a serious problem with alcohol and not just a wonderful character. It is a strange case on their hands: a lady called Mrs. Death ", instructs him to seek the old French writer Céline.
A series of surreal events are taking place in the life of Belan, twisting, a life full of regrets and self-pity, the old detective put in dangerous situations to the point of absurdity.
Bukowski takes a lot of himself in the protagonist, lost in the course of the narrative in ranting monologues and reflections on death, on the human condition, sex, again through his cynical view of the world, terribly cynical and brutal.
The writing ranges from the sublime to the street language, insults and words "dirty" does not save, but the author's style, his language is so dirty because it is so deeply rooted in their common life, the life of a worker, the hard life of those who daily struggles to survive but did not clear the reason for his struggle.
The story has a print typical of detective noir '40s, but it is not a thriller, it would be simplistic to call it like this: In this more than any other Bukowski books you can steal the philosophy of the author , a sort of "spiritual testament", full of phrases that reveal smell of alcohol, despair, but that is not without irony.
It 's a book that divides, certainly the raw language could stop many readers, perhaps convinced to read the ravings of a crazy old man (and indeed is so in part). But I think one of the most original and exciting books that I have ever read, but a surreal story that makes you think, funny and yet so profoundly sad, dripping life lived as only great stories can do, in short, a masterpiece.
Written by: Andrea Gaetani
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