The last novel published during Charles Bukowski's lifetime, a few months before his death, Pulp tells the story of Nick Belane, a lousy private detective, on a crazy investigation in the service of Death. The target of this investigation? A famous French writer. It's the author's and his character's last zany jaunt before leaving this world. But above all, an ode to bad literature. Get your hands on it, fast.
After focusing on the literary odyssey of John Fante and his double Arturo Bandini, and exploring the work of Frédéric Beigbeder and the Octave Parango trilogy in the last editions of this magazine, I'd like to complete this triad of writers who, to my taste, have much in common, by tackling that great novelist Charles Bukowski. I say novelist but, in reality, Bukowski was also a poet and short-story writer. Finally, it's
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