![]() ![]() The product of its fattest most self-satisfied cultures. Virtually all of the world's great literature has been Tend to risk self-indulgence-remarkably few writers can make their ownĭebauchery into interesting prose-and often sacrifice coherence.Īs for the specific value of hunger and suffering as muses, they obviously The influence, not any revelations about the broader world that resultedįrom said mind altering. The good stuff that even they produced details their adventures while under However, other than Bukowski andĪ little bit of Hunter Thompson, it is hard to think of many authors whoseĭissipation has helped produce much that's worth reading. Burroughs, Mailer, etc., as writers who sought the profound Of suffering for art and of inspiration coming from hallucination haveĬertainly been influential-we think of Faulkner, Hemingway, Henry Miller, With a universal revelation, or merely a personal insight. It remains for the reader to determine whether Hamsun has been blessed Seems to be that the experience of poverty and hunger are a necessary fuel The author learned while working in America. Than alcohol in this case-and is told in the spare, punchy prose that Vision of Charles Bukowski-the visions brought on by starvation rather Of Raskalnikov, with the first person narrative and near hallucinatory It combines something of the manic intensity of Dostoevskey's portrayal Knut Hamsun's semi autobiographical account of his early yearsĪs an aspiring writer is the sine qua non of starving artist literature. ![]()
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