![]() Post Office is based on autobiographical elements and relates Bukowski’s years as a postman in Los Angeles. First-names are important here as Bukowski used Charles for his pen name and Henry for his literary alter-ego Henry Chinarski. ![]() His parents started to call him Henry after they moved in America. Though it dates back to 1978, the incident was famous and scandalous enough to be related in the foreword of the French edition of Post Office.Ĭharles Bukowski (1920-1994) was born in Germany from a German mother and an American father. ![]() When I told my mother I was reading Bukowski she said “Isn’t he the guy who was drunk at Apostrophes and caused a scandal?” Apostrophes was the most famous live literary talk-show in France from 1975 to 1990. ![]() A writer who praised John Fante is a good recommendation for me, so I thought I should read one of his books and when I saw Post Office in Guy’s Top 10 books for 2010, I decided to read it too. ![]() Foreword: I have read this in French and I will probably make mistakes in using vocabulary related to the post office environment as I had to look for words in the dictionary.īukowski wrote the foreword of Ask the Dust by John Fante, a writer he adored and contributed to re-discover. ![]()
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