Why do hipsters who pretend to be into literature talk so much about Bukowski?

I can sorta see it

If i wanted a degenerate writer i will get Burroughs.

Hipsters? If they're in their 20s then it's because of modest mouse desu.

But who would wanna be such an asshole?

He's easy to read. This board bashes Bukowski because the users deliberately seek out books that needlessly obfuscate meaning. I never liked playing with puzzles, but autists do.

Hardly a hack. If you were not such a superficial reader you would learn that he read all of the stereotypical undergraduate novels and philosophers like the rest of us did such as Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, etc. His life was actually rather similar to Dostoevsky and his writing is about similar subjects. Those who reject Bukowski now would have been among the bourgeoisie and the lumpenproletariat who rejected Dos. They're part of the same tradition.

>needlessly obfuscate meaning
>How dare people not give me things on a silver platter!

>Those who reject Bukowski now would have been among the bourgeoisie and the lumpenproletariat who rejected Dos.

This is someone who loves the smell of their own farts.

Kitsch as fuck.

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski

Take your pick.

>"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

>I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions. More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote. I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age. If I want to kill myself I feel that should be my business. If I go out and hold up gas stations at night to pay for my supply it is because the law inflates a very cheap thing into an escalated war against my nerves and my soul.

>It's the current century!

Your implications are laughable and do not offer any sort of argument. I'll bite the bait nonetheless with a quote from Bukowski: "as the spirit wanes, the form appears," or in other words, when you have nothing to say, you bullshit. Which is exactly what your post was. It was a big, bubbly, stinky, worthless turd.

They're actually decent quotes especially if they are off the cuff. He sounds like Nietzsche.

>lumpneproles
>reading novels

Because he represents the bohemian style of life of the modern artist that they want to imitate by their hipsterism. Living life to the foolest, drinking, fucking and that sort of thing. Though he was just a drunk, and an all around screw up that wrote quite average stuff. And at the time he started playing the troubled artist that trope was already a little passe. And played by far better artists and writters, before him and while he was active.

>5639
No. This doesn't make any sense.

He's qoutable, fukbois love qoutes, especially Bukowski qoutes

w e w

>he didn't like the first clerks

This. Buk spent his free sober time in libraries and, as this user said, was fairly well read plus a critic who seemed to value heart and honesty in the works he read.

He was a nihilist in that life was meaningless, death was coming, make the most of it. His works were about triumph.

Besides, as much as i love Joyce, Borges and the higher tier of lit, as with films, sometimes i just want some dumb fun.

>His life was actually rather similar to Dostoevsky and his writing is about similar subjects.

I'd date to object that you believe Bukowski and Dusty lived similar lives and wrote about similar subjects.

Dusty wrote about the intricacies of human thought and tied it to religion. Bukowski wrote about how nonsensical and grotesque society seemed to be in his eyes.

just like mac demarco
he inspires lazy bums to keep being lazy bums
le life to the fullest!

>Proletariat
>Bohemian
pick one faggot. A bohemian is a perpetual poser, while Bukowski was anything but that. As far as the "troubled artist" bit goes, I don't think any "troubled artist" ever viewed themselves that way but was labeled as such by weaker people.

Not arguments.

I have a feeling you are the same person. Essentially Bukowski's ethic takes Hemingway's "grace under pressure" and mixes it with Cynicism. "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." Those elements you mention about Bukowski and Dostoevsky are themes that can be found in both of their works. Crime and Punishment is loaded with grotesque characters, or at least Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov are pretty bizarre, not to mention the police detective. I never bothered finishing Brothers. K, but those characters are rather grotesque too, deformed by their idees fixes. Religion is also present throughout Bukowski's works in the sense that he criticized certain "orders of existence" that other people follow. He didn't really bother with formal religions, but why would he? Christianity died on the cross!

If Bukowski saw this thread he would easily BTFO you NEET parasites posing as critics on Channard Chinky's with devastating satire. GG.