“Don’t Try”

By
Mazhar Fareed

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In 1920 a child was born in German-American
family.
 Behavior of his father
was quite abusive to
him both mentally and
physically.

Neighborhood
children reduclid him
due to his strong
German accent and
the clothing
He grew into a shy, socially withdrawn
young lad. This was his depression that
gave him much of his material for writing.
 He moved to New York With
dream of becoming a writer.

He is arrested by
F.B.I on suspension
of German spy.
 For decades his work
was rejected by almost
every news paper,
magazine, journal, and
publisher he submitted
to

“Ten years drunk”.

 Later he took a job as letter filler in post
office.

 He got admitted to hospital for the

treatment of his near fatal-bleeding ulcer.
 An editor of an independent publishing house
become interested into his work, when he was
a fifty.

 He wrote back to the editor that “He had two

choices, stay in the post office and go crazy,
or stay out here and play at writers and starve
and I had decided to starve”.
 “Find what you Love and let it kill
you”- Charles Bukowski

His writing was

influenced by social,
cultural and economic
ambience of his home
city Los Angeles.
Major Writings

 Short stories

 Novels

 Poetry

 Bukowski also performed live readings of his works

 In 1981, the Italian director  made a film

Tales of Ordinary Madness, loosely based on the
short stories of Bukowski.
On his tombstone epitaph
reads “Don’t try”.
So now can you explain
this ?
Thank you