La enfermedad de escribir

In this selection of letters, Bukowski reflects on writing, his literary mentors, and life experiences. Reading them offers a stimulating autobiographical journey that reveals a nuanced Bukowski, beyond the archetype; an author obsessively devoted to writing, with a solid foundation of reading and a very clear vision of his ideas, which leads him to complain about certain publishing attempts to tame his raw and direct style. The letters are addressed to magazine editors, his publisher, John Martin, writers such as Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Hilda Doolittle, critics, and friends.