La enfermedad de escribir

Bukowski reflects on writing and on his literary teachers and life experiences. Abel Debritto, a scholar of the writer, has traced his unpublished correspondence and has selected the letters in which he addresses the subject of his craft and his art. There are magazine editors, their publisher John Martin, writers like Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti or Hilda Doolittle, critics and friends. In them he reflects sharply on the writing process and allows us to delve into the depths of the publishing business. Reading them presents a stimulating autobiographical journey that reveals a nuanced Bukowski, beyond the archetype; to an author obsessively overturned in writing, with a solid background of readings and a very clear vision of his approaches, which leads him to complain about some editorial attempts to domesticate his rough and direct style.