Diploma focuses on substantive rewiew and comparison of two novels by Charles Bukowski: Ham on Rye and Women with two John Fante’s novels: Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Ask the Dust. The focus is on violence, love and sexuality. The selected works show the dark side of idealised America in the 20th century and expose the life of an individual from the bottom of social ladder. With both writers we are following a protagnosit, whose youth, marked with poverty and violence, evolves into deep psychological trauma that accompanies him always and everywhere. He then, crushed by life, seeks comfort in alcohol and women. Diploma contains an analysis of Henry Chinaski’s and Arturo Bandini’s attitude to the factors that marked their youth (poverty, psychological violence, physical violence and alcoholism). Based on that psychological traumas their attitude towards life, sexuality and life in general, is presented.
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