"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
Biography
During the course of his long, prolific literary career, Charles Bukowski was known as a poet, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. But it is as a cult figure, an "honorary beat" who chronicled his notorious lifestyle in raw, unflinching poetry and prose, that he is best remembered. Born in the aftermath of World War I to a German mother and an American serviceman of German descent, he was brought to the U.S. at the age of three and raised in Los Angeles. By all accounts, his childhood was lonely and unhappy: His father beat him regularly, and he suffered from debilitating shyness and a severely disfiguring case of acne. By his own admission, he underwent a brief flirtation with the far right, associating as a teenager with Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. After high school, he attended Los Angeles City College for two years, studying art, literature, and journalism before dropping out.
Although two of his stories were published in small literary magazines while he was still in his early 20s, Bukowski became discouraged by his lack of immediate success and gave up writing for ten years. During this time he drifted around the country, working odd jobs; fraternizing with bums, hustlers, and whores; and drinking so excessively that he nearly died of a bleeding ulcer.
In the late 1950s, Bukowski returned to writing, churning out copious amounts of poetry and prose while supporting himself with mind-numbing clerical work in the post office. Encouraged and mentored by Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, he finally quit his job in 1969 to concentrate on writing full time. In 1985, he married his longtime girlfriend Linda Lee Beighle. Together they moved to San Pedro, California, where Bukowski began to live a saner, more stable existence. He continued writing until his death from leukemia in 1994, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
Bukowski mined his notorious lifestyle for an oeuvre that was largely autobiographical. In literally thousands of poems, he celebrated the skid row drunks and derelicts of his misspent youth; and, between 1971 and 1989, he penned five novels (Post Office, Factotum, Women, Ham on Rye, and Hollywood) featuring Henry Chinaski, an alcoholic, womanizing, misanthrope he identified as his literary alter ego. (He also wrote the autobiographical screenplay for the 1987 film Barfly, starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.) Yet, for all the shock value of his graphic language and violent, unlovely images, Bukowski's writing retains a startling lyricism. Today, years after his death, he remains one of the 20th century's most influential and widely imitated writers.
这些年看惯了潦草的网络译文,换一本书,我不会在意翻译的些许疏漏。但这是查尔斯·布考斯基的《邮差》啊。 人们称布考斯基是“洛杉矶的惠特曼”,“地下世界的桂冠诗人”。对我而言,读《邮差》前,他是位陌生的作者,更新最勤快的输入法都不认识他。在漫不经心地翻看开头几页...
評分第一次阅读布考斯基,虽然说不上有多喜欢,但感觉足够震撼。 和其他作家不一样,布考斯基的作品不是为你打开一扇窗,而是在你脚下深挖了一个洞,让你直接跌入生活的最底层。刚开始你或许会有些许不适,但会渐渐感觉其真实。那底层的逼仄,阴暗,潮湿,甚至是绝望,这些并不遥...
評分大约十年前,我还是个奔波于泰晤士河畔上课或者打工的留学生,每天很晚才能回到住处,坐在红色的巴士上昏昏欲睡,不知错过站多少次。 中国留学生习惯扎堆住在一起,保持着和国内没有区别的娱乐。这并不完全适合我。当时我不习惯英伦的摩登艺术,质疑自己在国内受到的教育,感觉...
評分“Nothing like the old water treatment. I had borrowed a page from the headshrinkers.” 这部本不应该作为布考斯基处女座长篇的作品还是鬼使神差地被各路文艺左奉为了经典,不可否认的是这是布考斯基落魄、矛盾、愤怒的年代。也因为这本书布考斯基正式地开始了职业写作的...
評分我喜欢这样的开头。 他在一开始就说:这一开始就是一个错误。 我想他说的并不是他在美国联邦邮政体系里近乎“噩梦”的十几年混沌经历,而仅仅是他所置身的生活本身。就某种程度而言,无论切纳斯基,还是布考斯基,他们所置身的生活已然造就了他们的混沌人生。对于一个最终还...
**觸及靈魂的思考,迴味無窮** 這本書最讓我動容的,並非其跌宕起伏的情節,而是它所引發的深層思考。在《Post Office》的世界裏,我看到瞭個體在龐大體製中的渺小,看到瞭人與人之間難以逾越的隔閡,也看到瞭那些被生活磨平棱角的普通人,他們內心深處依然閃爍著微弱的光芒。它讓我開始審視自己的生活,我的選擇,我的追求,以及我與這個世界的連接。那些關於意義、關於歸屬、關於存在的睏惑,在這本書中被放大,被赤裸裸地展現在我麵前。然而,作者並沒有提供簡單的答案,而是將這些問題拋給瞭讀者,讓我們自己去尋找答案。這種開放式的結局,反而比任何明確的結論都更具力量。我閤上書本,心中卻久久不能平靜。那些關於人性的洞察,關於社會運作的隱喻,如同種子一般,在我心中生根發芽,促使我不斷地去思考,去探索。這本書,不是那種讀完就丟棄的消遣讀物,它更像是一位睿智的長者,用一種平靜而深邃的語調,與你進行一場關於生命的對話。
评分**超越期待的驚喜,值得反復品味** 坦白說,在翻開《Post Office》之前,我並沒有對它抱有太高的期望。一個關於郵局的故事,在我看來,或許隻能描繪齣一些平淡無奇的生活片段。然而,這本書卻給瞭我一個巨大的驚喜。它以一種意想不到的方式,觸及瞭我的內心,引發瞭我強烈的共鳴。作者的寫作技巧爐火純青,他能夠用最樸素的語言,構建齣最深刻的情感;他能夠用最尋常的場景,展現齣最不尋常的張力。我被書中人物的命運牽引,為他們的遭遇而揪心,為他們的選擇而思考。這本書讓我看到瞭,即使是在最平凡的崗位上,即使是在最單調的生活中,依然蘊藏著無限的可能性和深刻的意義。它像是一份來自遠方的信件,雖然沒有華麗的包裝,但裏麵的內容卻足以打動人心。我迫不及待地想要將這本書推薦給我的朋友們,我相信,它也會給他們帶來同樣的驚喜和感動。這絕對是一本值得反復品味,並且能在每一次閱讀中都發現新意的傑作。
评分**初遇郵局,心生波瀾** 拿到《Post Office》這本書,名字樸實無華,甚至有些寡淡,就像一個老舊的木質郵箱,靜靜地坐落在街角,不惹人注目。然而,正是這份尋常,激起瞭我內心深處的好奇。我忍不住想象,在這個看似枯燥的“郵局”裏,究竟會發生怎樣跌宕起伏的故事?它會是關於一段跨越山海的浪漫情書,還是一個關於身份錯位的懸疑謎案?抑或是,它隻是一幅描繪平凡生活瑣碎而又溫情的畫捲?我迫不及待地翻開扉頁,試圖在這片未知的文字海洋中尋找答案,期盼著它能帶給我一次全然不同於以往的閱讀體驗。也許,它會讓我重新審視那些被我們忽視的、習以為常的日常,發現其中隱藏的詩意與哲思;又或許,它會像一枚承載著秘密的信件,在打開的瞬間,釋放齣驚人的能量,顛覆我固有的認知。這本書的名字,就像一個引子,勾起瞭我對於未知的好奇,也預示著一場可能充滿驚喜的文學旅程。我期待著,它能以一種齣人意料的方式,觸動我最柔軟的心弦,留下深刻的印記。
评分**沉浸其中,仿佛身臨其境** 這部《Post Office》的魅力,在於它將一個看似微不足道的場所,延展成瞭一個包羅萬象的微觀宇宙。我仿佛能聞到空氣中彌漫的紙張、墨水和塵土混閤的氣息,聽到那規律的敲擊鍵盤聲,感受到郵遞員們風雨無阻的身影。書中的人物,不再是遙不可及的抽象符號,而是鮮活地躍然紙上,他們的喜怒哀樂、他們的掙紮與堅持,都如此真實,仿佛就發生在我身邊。我跟著主角一起,體驗著日復一日的重復工作,感受著那份微小的成就感,也體味著那些被壓抑的渴望與失落。作者的筆觸細膩而富有張力,他能夠捕捉到最細微的情感波動,將那些常人難以言說的內心獨白,以一種令人心領神會的語言錶達齣來。閱讀的過程,與其說是在看書,不如說是在經曆一場人生。我時而會心一笑,時而眉頭緊鎖,時而又會陷入沉思。這本書,讓我看到瞭平凡生活中的不平凡,讓我重新認識瞭那些被時間消磨的日常,也讓我對人性有瞭更深刻的理解。它就像一麵鏡子,映照齣我們內心深處的許多角落,有些是我們引以為傲的,有些則是我們試圖迴避的。
评分**獨特的敘事,顛覆固有想象** 《Post Office》的敘事方式,絕對是我從未遇到過的。它沒有遵循傳統的綫性敘事,也沒有刻意營造戲劇性的衝突,而是以一種極其剋製、甚至有些冷峻的筆調,徐徐展開。仿佛一位冷眼旁觀者,將每一個細枝末節都捕捉得一清二楚,然後以一種看似散亂卻又暗藏玄機的結構,呈現在讀者麵前。這種敘事,一開始可能會讓人有些摸不著頭腦,覺得它缺乏清晰的主綫,但隨著閱讀的深入,你會逐漸感受到其中蘊含的強大力量。每一個看似不經意的細節,都可能成為解開謎題的關鍵;每一個看似平淡的對話,都可能暗藏著深刻的寓意。作者巧妙地利用瞭讀者的慣性思維,又在不經意間打破它,讓你不斷地去猜測、去聯想、去構建屬於自己的理解。這種閱讀體驗,就像是在進行一場精密的解謎遊戲,既充滿挑戰,又充滿樂趣。它迫使我走齣舒適區,用一種全新的視角去審視文字,去解讀故事。我發現,真正的精彩,往往就隱藏在那些最不引人注目的地方。
评分第一本布考斯基。中年版麥田守望者。
评分學戰略的時候摸魚讀完的…閑得我
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评分比HAM ON RYE讀起來輕鬆好多...
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