The present book aims at discussing critically the autobiographical
tones in the fiction of Charles Bukowski with special reference to
his two famous novels Ham on Rye and Women. An attempt has been
made to examine how truly he could, through his characters and
their peculiar situations express his autobiographical facts in
these novels. Bukowski created a literary persona named Henry
Chinaski as a vessel for expressing his alternative view of the
world, to a large extent concerned with commenting on the role of
the artist in the society, the stultifying dullness and conformity
of the 'day-job', the comic dimensions of sexual relationships, the
often unpleasant realities of poverty and chronic drunkenness, and
the constant struggle of the alienated individual to assert his
non-conformist identity. The book traces the development of
Chinaski's non-conformist personality from Ham On Rye, based on
Bukowski's youth in Los Angeles during the Depression, to Women,
where Bukowski focuses on relationships and sex.
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