Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man is a collection of raw, autobiographical columns and stories by Charles Bukowski that showcase his gritty, humorous, and unfiltered view of urban life and human excess.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
column collection
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Charles Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | newspaper columns by Charles Bukowski ⓘ |
| containsAutobiographicalElements | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical fiction
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dirty realism ⓘ short stories ⓘ underground literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialPersona | Henry Chinaski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780872860075 ⓘ |
| hasSequelOrRelatedWork | More Notes of a Dirty Old Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInSeries | City Lights Books Pocket Poets / prose line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later transgressive fiction writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Beat generation-adjacent ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
candid treatment of sex and drinking
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cult following in underground literature ⓘ depiction of skid-row Los Angeles ⓘ |
| originalColumnVenue | Open City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | newspaper columns ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | City Lights Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCareerPhase | early Bukowski prose collections ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| publisher | City Lights Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Los Angeles
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urban United States ⓘ |
| style |
gritty
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humorous ⓘ raw ⓘ unfiltered ⓘ |
| theme |
alcoholism
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alienation ⓘ dark humor ⓘ human excess ⓘ outsider existence ⓘ poverty ⓘ sex ⓘ urban life ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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