![]() ![]() ![]() I've read it several times over the years, and while I can't say as mjp did, I don't care for it, it's definitely far from a favourite. But I was surprised and perhaps confused by Pulp, the way its written - the pastiche, the themes and the characters. I started my Bukowski habit with a novel - Factotum - and read all I could afterwards, enjoying both fiction and poetry. Maybe even a personal critique-cum-epitaph-cum-eulogy. I think it can only ever be interpreted as not only a last novel but really as a conclusion to a career and perhaps a message from Bukowski to many who knew him - either personally or through his writing. I think mjp was saying that if Bukowski hadn't been so ill and really knowing what his prognosis was, then he wouldn't have written Pulp when he did. ![]()
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