![]() ![]() However, a close examination of his work reveals a writer who is obsessed with order, ritual, and kindness. Considering that Bukowski’s characters are often drunks (his alter ego and antihero Henry Chinaski), it could be difficult to believe that Bukowski was deeply concerned with bad manners. Salinger and Ernest Hemingway-also was interested in exposing phoniness. ![]() ![]() The themes that Bukowski explored throughout his career remained consistent in his own estimation, the artist’s goal is to explore the same themes eternally.īukowski-perhaps even more than writers J. As much as he wrote about booze, horse racing, failure, hesitation, and loss, he wrote twice as much about love, genuineness, literature, and music. As noted in many documentaries, biographies, and accounts of Bukowski’s life, however, he also had a gentle side. Most of Charles Bukowski’s writing examines his life as a drunk, drifter, gambler, loner, and unemployed and unemployable creature of habit. ![]()
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