Women

Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, the author of more than forty books, including novels, poetry, essays, and short stories. Despite the sometimes shocking naturalism, his texts are full of lyricism, even a peculiar sentimentality.

The novel "Women" was written during a wave of popularity and contains a multitude of Bukowski's signature "tricks": self-irony, an abundance of sexual scenes, and plot energy. The book's protagonist is 50 years old, named Henry Chinaski, and serves as the author's constant alter ego. The novel is a series of more than candid sexual scenes, unified by the main theme - the protagonist’s endless love for his women, admiration for them, and a rough yet sincere awe.

A rebel and a romantic, unwilling to fit into any mold, scornful of any rules - such an image arises for anyone who reads the books of Charles Bukowski.

Those who hear music in his deliberately brutal prose and poetry, who can glimpse the poetry behind the mask of a cynic and a foul-mouthed, will love him forever.

Bukowski, it seems, didn't care whether he would be heard. He went his own way, despising refined people and refined, hollowed-out art.

"While men are watching football or drinking beer or wandering around bowling alleys, these women think about us, focus, study, decide - to accept us, throw us away, exchange us, kill us or just leave us".