Notes

• [1]
  The column “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” would later be published by the magazines NOLA Express and Los Angeles Free Press. https://bukowski.net/database/notes-of-a-dirty-old-man.php. Accessed August 2 2022.
• [2]
  He was partly involved in Bukowski’s publishing in France, as I have found some correspondence from Eliane Benisti – Bukowski’s agent in France at the time – about Weissner in the Grasset Papers archived at the Imec.
  Correspondence in the archives: Bukowski, Charles, 770 GRS 612. 5, Imec, Caen.
• [3]
  The quotes in English from editors or authors who originally wrote in French are all my translations.
• [4]
  The term “counter-cultural” is used here to refer to Charles Bukowski’s posture in France, even though Abel Debritto explains that the writer criticized trendy counter-culture movements such as the Beat (6) and can be considered instead as an “outsider” of literature.
• [5]
  https://www.lespressesdureel.com/auteur.php?id=1542. Accessed April 14 2023.
• [6]
  The phone interview was conducted in November 2019.
• [7]
  Claude Pélieu was a “valuable passeur between America and Europe, [who] personifies the Beat transatlantic hyphen” (Pacini 97), a French poet living in California and a friend of Carl Weissner. He was also the “discoverer” of William S. Burroughs and worked closely with Christian Bourgois.
  https://gonzai.com/speed-17-porfolio/. Accessed August 3 2022.
• [8]
  Garnier not only introduced and translated Bukowski to and for Humanoïdes Associés, but also other authors such as Hunter S. Thompson.
• [9]
  Contre means counter in English.
• [10]
  This title is the French translation for The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.
• [11]
  https://www.lesinrocks.com/livres/la-memoire-de-bukowski-entachee-derreurs-et-contresens-121434-13-03-2015/. Accessed August 2 2022.
• [12]
  It can be roughly translated as “love at first sight”.
• [13]
  I found around thirty reviews of Charles Bukowski’s books in the Grasset papers dating back to 1977 and 1978.
• [14]
  This quote is known in English as “the greatest American poet alive today” and is still attributed regularly to either Genet or Sartre.
• [15]
  https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/books/french-tv-show-on-books-is-ending.html. Accessed October 14 2022.
• [16]
  An example of Le Sagittaire’s book covers can be found on https://www.abebooks.fr. Accessed October 25 2022.
• [17]
  Humanoïdes Associés’ covers of Bukowski’s books can be found on https://on-off-productions.com/index.php?display=rubrique&rubId=26&srubId=51&docId=59&dis=realisation. Accessed October 25 2022.
  
• [18]
  This happens at 10min43sec of the video found online. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xak48y. Accessed October 25 2022.
• [19]
  The book covers from Le Sagittaire can be viewed on screen from 11min57sec. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xak48y. Accessed October 25 2022.