Post Office
(Charles Bukowski)
Excluding the profession of the writer, which after 50 years gave him notoriety, wealth and deserved recognition by the critics, the profession of the postman has been the job that has kept Henry Chinaski busy for the majority of the time. Advised by an acquaintance, he applied for the job before Christmas without knowing that he would work 10 years in those offices, with only a brief rest inbetween. But Henry isn't the kind of postman you see everyday: he has little desire to work and continues to question the meaning of his job and why all these restrictions are imposed upon him. Above all, Chinaski is more accustomed to alcohol than most. Any time is a good time to drink and get drunk, and the raging hangovers affect both his mental and work-related performance. Between the perpetual reprimands from his superiors, his chronic lateness, his endless delivery rounds with his notorious leather sack on his shoulders through the streets of Los Angeles, his bets at the racecourse and his benders, Chinaski doesn't leave out the tales of his numerous up-and-down romances with women of his own mould who never cease to insult, betray and ridicule him. His job as a postman sees him come into contact with countless processions of characters; colleagues, or simply customers, who, in his revealing writing style, are described with no false modesty. The world in which he lives is in fact populated by failures; rejects; by people who can get nothing more out of life; by fat and ugly women disposed to submitting themselves either out of desperation or after payment. Amongst all of this he also has time for marriage, divorce, dismissal and other oddities that are told with a cynical and disillusioned view, as if competing with a demonstrator for the poor.
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