The Song of Ham (1982) relates with a tasteful humor the first years of the life of Henry Chinaski, the non-conformist alter ego of the writer, and the experiences of his maturation during the Great Depression and the eve of the Second World War. A s ...
The Song of Ham (1982) relates with a tasteful humor the first years of the life of Henry Chinaski, the non-conformist alter ego of the writer, and the experiences of his maturation during the Great Depression and the eve of the Second World War. A solitary and mournful child, terrified by a violent father and the gloomy spectrum of poverty, harassed without hesitation by strangers and schilos who proclaim his friends, Henry matures rapidly, becoming a cynical, indolent and aggressive adolescent, lacking in great ambition. The novel describes in a style of vulgarity often shocking, but with a convincing sincerity and naturalness, its struggle with severe acne that shatters any chance of a normal social life, its first erotic and backy experiences in the sordid neighborhoods of Los Angeles, but and the first literary attempts.
"If you want to save the world, you have to do it with every man. Whoever says otherwise is either a romantic grandman or a politician. "(Charles Bukowski)
"A very joyful book, at the same time very sad and, despite the narcissistic tone, she often honors. Bukowski seems to have been the best writer to describe South California during the war - a land filled with terrible spaces, unspoiled, lacking the slightest interest in which only imagination can stop you from making a mess. At a time when everyone was worshiping conformism, Bukowski wrote about the gullible, selfish, lonely and foolish of his country. "( The Observer )
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