Women

The novel "Women" was published for the first time in 1978, and it is similar to an autobiography of Charles Bukowski, where he focuses on the women in his life, as a poet and writer. Charles Bukowski was born in the city of Andernach in Germany in August 1920, to an American father and a German mother. In 1927, his parents returned to the United States. Bukowski's childhood was a long journey of pain due to his father's violent whims, who would beat him for trivial reasons and deprive him of the pleasures of childhood and playing with neighborhood children. As for his mother, she was a silent lady who did not interfere in the relationship between the father and the son, who spent his childhood and adolescence as if he were paying the price for his father's failure in his professional life, especially after losing his job following the stock market crash at the end of the twenties. At the age of ten, he first felt the magical power that writing can sometimes grant when he wrote an essay in school describing his observation of the visit of American President Hoover to the city. The student Bukowski had to invent everything from his imagination since his father prevented him from going out to the street to see the president with his peers. Later, Bukowski would describe this incident as the decisive event in his life and the motivation that encouraged him to write. In 1960, he published his first poetry collection at the age of thirty-five, but the collection that drew attention to him was the one published in 1965 by publisher John Webb under the title "I Held My Heart in Her Hands."