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- Authors: Charles Bukowski
- Language: English
- Genre: Fiction
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***Post Office*** by Charles Bukowski is his gritty, unapologetic debut novel—and a brutal, darkly funny chronicle of soul-crushing labor, quiet despair, and unapologetic rebellion. Written in just a few weeks and published in 1971 when Bukowski was 50, the novel draws heavily from his own life, chronicling the years he spent working for the U.S. Postal Service through the lens of his alter ego, **Henry Chinaski**.
The narrative is episodic and raw, following Chinaski as he drifts through long shifts, meaningless routines, sadistic supervisors, heavy drinking, and dead-end relationships. The job is grueling, the structure oppressive, and the humor bleak—but Bukowski turns this tedium into something biting and oddly captivating. His style is stark, profane, and straight to the gut, with no wasted words and no attempt to soften the rough edges of life at the bottom.
What makes *Post Office* endure is its honesty. It’s not a novel of redemption or growth—it’s a howl of frustration from a man allergic to conformity and mediocrity, even as he’s swallowed by them. Chinaski doesn’t change, and the world doesn’t get better, but the act of telling the story becomes its own kind of resistance. Brutal, hilarious, and deeply human, *Post Office* is a perfect entry point into Bukowski’s world—where beauty lies not in escape, but in enduring with your middle finger raised.
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