In 200 years they won't be reading Kerouac or Ginsburg, they won't be reading Henry Miller or Celine. They'll be reading this man. 

There is something Biblical about his writing. Concision to the point of elipsis. A zen master on the level of the sentence. A complete drought of pretense and conceit. I can imagine in two hundred years his novels being expanded upon like Bible stories, like Joseph in Egypt by Mann, so powerful are the images, and so narrow the space between them. 

A completely uneducated man, whose four main novels put together, from Post Office through Factotum, Women, and Ham on Rye forming a thousand page howl, the living testament an immense human yearning ... for love. 

That's what it was about. A madman's irrational, uncontainable longing for love. For someone that would love him all the way through, unconditonally, from crown to ass, from the beaten puppy to the dirty old rapist. 

His whole work is entirely single sighted. He never stopped telling us EXACTLY who he was, because he would settle for nothing less than total, absolute, unconditonal love. 



BIM BIM BIM!

I've been reading literature and philosophy for 20 years and I agree. Bukowski was based. The sheer contempt he had for flaccid, dead-end prose was what eventually made me swear off half the canon of the 20th c. He's right. The shit blows. Say something in one or two brilliant searing images or don't.

The other authors may have been more prosaic, but they were also better in content.

>>21989534 (OP)

I just read 3 of his poems, all I can say is pee pee poo poo.

>>21989534 (OP)

They will be reading Celine

Yeah, I agree. The images that Celine creates are unmatched by Bukowski. Maybe Burroughs comes close

>>21989534 (OP)

>Kerouac

Will no longer have a small army of pseud hipster fans buying into his LARP but will likely have a small place in the American canon.

>Ginsberg

Will be remembered for his obsenity trial more than his writing (and him being a member of NAMBLA will probably become more pronounced instead of buried).

>Henry Miller

I honestly haven't read anything by him or enough about him to offer an opinion. From the little I know it seems he's mostly known for how pornographic his writing was so similar fate to Ginsberg? 

>Celine

His association with Nazis will fade and he'll be less obscure in the future.

>Bukowski

WIll be seen as one of the pioneers of the Confessional movement and will be judged positively versus what that movement morphed into (i.e. self-centered poetry that isn't self-reflective (it forgets the "confessional" part), Rupi Kaur is an example).

>>21989534 (OP)

Retard.

Why? Have you even read Bukowski's short stories and poetry?

>sure m'lady, you can borrow anything from my vast and diverse library

>mind the 'pops though

>funkopops
