«There is something in me that is not right, I think too much about sex. When I see a woman I always imagine her in bed with me. It's a good way to kill time at airports. That phrase, taken from his own novel perfectly sums up the content of the work: Charles BukowskiThrough his alter ego Hank Chinaski, he presents the sexual marathon that his life became from the age of fifty, after leaving the post office where he worked and beginning to achieve success as a poet.
Poetry recitals, young ladies volunteering, phone calls asking for Chinese, jealousy, slamming doors, wild dust and the odd trip are the ingredients of this novel in which the protagonist himself is aware that what he is doing is sleeping with different women in order to create female characters. A study of the other gender ... and of himself, which leads him to discover the reason for all that: he is too childish ... he did not receive love as a child and now he does not know what it is to love. But yes what is fucking, as he himself says.
For this reason, the Times newspaper made the following correct observation when criticizing the novel: “It seems like a story about sex and drunkenness when in fact it is a poem about love and pain.
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