Хлеб с ветчиной

Charlʹz Bukovski — odin iz krupneĭshikh amerikanskikh pisateleĭ KhKh veka, avtor bolee chem soroka knig, sredi kotorykh romany, stikhi, ėsseistika i rasskazy. Nesmotria na poroiu shokiruiushchiĭ naturalizm, ego teksty polny lirichnosti, dazhe svoeobraznoĭ sentimentalʹnosti.«Khleb s vetchinoĭ» — samyĭ proniknovennyĭ roman Bukovski. Podobno «Prikliucheniiam Geklʹberri Finna» i «Nad propastʹiu vo rzhi», on napisan s tochki zreniia vpechatlitelʹnogo rebenka, imeiushchego delo s dvulichiem, pretentsioznostʹiu i tshcheslaviem vzroslogo mira. Rebenka, postepenno otkryvaiushchego dlia sebia alkogolʹ i zhenshchin, azartnye igry i mordoboĭ, D. G. Lourensa i Kheminguėia, Turgeneva i Dostoevskogo.

Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, the author of more than forty books, including novels, poems, essays and short stories. Despite the sometimes shocking naturalism, his lyrics are full of lyricism, even a kind of sentimentality."Bread and Ham" is Bukowski's most heartfelt novel. Like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, it is written from the point of view of an impressionable child dealing with the duplicity, pretentiousness and vanity of the adult world. A child gradually discovering alcohol and women, gambling and bruising, D. G. Lawrence and Hemingway, Turgenev and Dostoevsky.