About drunkenness

Here is a collection of works of Bukovsky on a topic that inspired and destroyed him all his life: alcohol. He called himself "old drunkenness", Bukovsky treated the drink as fuel and even muse. The bottle led him to the darkest thoughts, and to the brightest and most spiritual. Alcohol became the Bukovsky method, his way to remain alone, to be with people, to be a poet, to be a lover and a friend - even often an expensive price.

For the first time in Russian! Charles Bukovsky is a cult figure of American literature, his odious alter ego, Henry Chinaska, rebel, alcoholic and Casanova, not
ceases to be admired and surprising among readers around the world.
“Eksmo” issues the collection “On Drunk” in the excellent translation of Maxim Nemtsov.

A great many dull stories of Bukovsky - the eternal battle of black humor with the squalor of life. - Maxim Nemtsov

For me it was or is a way to die without taking off the boots and with a pistol smoking and still so that symphonic music is a background