Ses parents l'ont déclaré mort pour ne pas avoir honte — Charles Bukowski | Documentaire

He was born in Germany, on the banks of the Rhine, in the aftermath of World War I. He grew up in a Los Angeles home where his father beat him three times a week for five years in a bathroom he would later call his torture chamber. At thirteen, an extreme form of acne ravaged his face. In an era before antibiotics, he was treated with an electric needle and a mercury vapor lamp. He missed six months of school. He would never forget that face. He wrote three short stories a week for fifteen years. He received thousands of rejection letters. He sorted mail for fourteen years in a windowless shed. He didn't achieve success until he was fifty. This documentary retraces the entire life of Charles Bukowski, from his birth in Andernach in 1920 to his death in San Pedro in 1994. We follow each step of this improbable journey: his childhood in the leather thong, his wanderings across the United States during the waning days of the Great Depression, his arrest by federal agents and the seventeen days spent in Moyamensing prison, the hemorrhage that nearly killed him at thirty-three in the county hospital's charity ward, the seven years he spent with Jane Cooney Baker, his marriage to a woman he had never met, the birth of his daughter Marina, and finally, the phone call from an unknown publisher who offered him one hundred dollars a month to quit his job and write nothing but that. We also examine the central question of this biography, the one that still divides scholars: where did Charles Bukowski end and Henry Chinaski, his fictional alter ego, begin? For this man methodically reworked his own life. He claimed to have been born out of wedlock, which is false. He claimed to have stopped writing for ten years, which is also false. The work of his biographers has helped to disentangle, in part, the legend from verifiable fact, and this documentary draws on this research to present as honest a picture as possible. Finally, with the neutrality such a subject demands, we address the controversies surrounding his work. These include accusations of misogyny leveled by academic critics, more recent interpretations that see it instead as an unintentional demonstration of the ravages of a violent family, and the question of his relationship with alcohol—a subject on which the testimonies of his loved ones and his publisher partially contradict the legend he himself had constructed. A life of rejection, beatings, furnished rooms, and bottles. And, in the end, a body of work read today throughout the world. Written and narrated by Étienne Beaumont. This documentary is an original work of the Histoires de Légendes channel. The script, narration, and editing are protected by copyright. Any reproduction, reuse, republication, or distribution, in whole or in part, on any medium whatsoever, is strictly prohibited without prior written authorization. Please respect the research and writing that made this film possible. If you enjoyed this documentary, a thumbs up and a subscription to the channel greatly help us continue this work. #CharlesBukowski #Documentary #Literature #Biography #LegendaryStories