What fame is: Bukowski's exploration of self

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Charles Bukowski continued to confront the ultimate truth of poverty and his own fears and myths in his fiction and motion picture screenplays after attaining fame. Bukowski created his own myths and explicated the issues of persona, fame, money and success with humor and irony. He retained the myths even after experiencing personal fame because he believed fame exacts a price from all. While his works exuded a cult-like charm, his critics judged him not on the basis of literary excellence, but with a bias against his personal characteristics.

Bukowski, Charles

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The Distant Magnet after twenty-five years: An essay in self-criticism

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When The Distant Magnet was published in 1971, some of the emphasis was changed, to stress Europe. The aim was for realism in the description of travel conditions, taking a world view, but staying close to the emigrant experience. However some inadequacies are now apparent, such as the underrating of hardships, leading to a certain blandness, and an overstating of the degree of ethnic concentration in American cities. The sources and methods of immigration research in the last quarter-century, are considered.

Portrayals, Works, Emigration and immigration, Taylor, P.A.M.

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Irony and purity: Mishima

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Writer and supporter of the Japanese military, Mishima Yukio, committed seppuku, ritual suicide, on Nov 25, 1970, after a failed attempt to use open rebellion of the military to prevent it from being reduced. His revolt was pointless and so the suicide seems worthless unless interpreted through Romantic Irony and Zen. Using these philosophies, Mishima's imitation of a samurai was an effort to attain pure realism through the conjunction of art and action.

Social aspects, Suicide, Mishima Yukio

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