Why Bukowski Said Hunger

Morning Polish
3 min readNov 11, 2021
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Only on the balcony overlooking the valley did Bukowski open up to this golden woman, who happened to him only twice a decade or so. He said, “Knut Hamsun is the best writer in the world”.

A one word title predicated Buk’s boldness: Hunger.

Here is skid-row figure Charles Bukowski pointing from dry-sunny California , past the Atlantic, for cold Norway. He cited Dostoyevsky, Céline, Li Bai and…

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