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Factotum
One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
205 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
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Charles Bukowski
821听books29.2k听followersHenry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books
Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.
Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including (1994), (1993), and (1992).
He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.
Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including (1994), (1993), and (1992).
He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
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October 2, 2009
people like talking shit about charles bukowski on goodreads, it seems funny.
i liked this book a lot. henry chinaski is an asshole but he knows he's an asshole and simply accepts being an asshole. everything seems detached and transient, nothing really matters to him, life is just this "thing that is happening" which he feels powerless to, so he doesn't invest much emotion in the things he feels like he needs to do to stay alive, and drinks to avoid feelings of alienation. i laughed out loud several times, alone.
this is the first bukowski novel i've read. i understand how people could claim that he's misogynistic, but it seems more to me like he is someone who is extremely detached from people in general, but also enjoys the experience of sex. when he talks about women in an "overly sexualized" way, they are usually women he doesn't know. in my experience, i usually objectify/have enhanced biases towards strangers of any kind -- or like, when i see a man i don't know who i'm intensely attracted to, i usually focus strongly on his physical characteristics because it's impossible to do anything else without knowing someone. bukowski seems to objectify women in a way that is not offensive, it just strikes me as what people who don't interact with a lot of people do, because people are always at a distance. he objectifies everything, kind of.
i empathized with him a lot. if he were alive and someone it made sense for me to know, i would probably have intense feelings for him and we would have sex but he wouldn't be able to fall in love with me because he was too self-involved/depressed, or he'd see that i care too much or something. still, reading this made me feel less alone.
i recommend this book to people who are depressed, introverted, maybe have had problems with alcohol, disenchanted with people/society in general, don't like lengthy descriptions/cliches/"language masturbation," and are able to view life with a detached, sarcastic eye.
i liked this book a lot. henry chinaski is an asshole but he knows he's an asshole and simply accepts being an asshole. everything seems detached and transient, nothing really matters to him, life is just this "thing that is happening" which he feels powerless to, so he doesn't invest much emotion in the things he feels like he needs to do to stay alive, and drinks to avoid feelings of alienation. i laughed out loud several times, alone.
this is the first bukowski novel i've read. i understand how people could claim that he's misogynistic, but it seems more to me like he is someone who is extremely detached from people in general, but also enjoys the experience of sex. when he talks about women in an "overly sexualized" way, they are usually women he doesn't know. in my experience, i usually objectify/have enhanced biases towards strangers of any kind -- or like, when i see a man i don't know who i'm intensely attracted to, i usually focus strongly on his physical characteristics because it's impossible to do anything else without knowing someone. bukowski seems to objectify women in a way that is not offensive, it just strikes me as what people who don't interact with a lot of people do, because people are always at a distance. he objectifies everything, kind of.
i empathized with him a lot. if he were alive and someone it made sense for me to know, i would probably have intense feelings for him and we would have sex but he wouldn't be able to fall in love with me because he was too self-involved/depressed, or he'd see that i care too much or something. still, reading this made me feel less alone.
i recommend this book to people who are depressed, introverted, maybe have had problems with alcohol, disenchanted with people/society in general, don't like lengthy descriptions/cliches/"language masturbation," and are able to view life with a detached, sarcastic eye.
December 13, 2023
Factotum 鈥� an employee who does all kinds of work.
Henry Chinaski 鈥� an alter ego of Charles Bukowski 鈥� was a special kind of factotum 鈥� he was an employee who didn鈥檛 want to do any kind of work.
Dull jobs in the dull world: he didn鈥檛 care about anything. He wanted to be a writer. And he kept writing all the time and anywhere.
He honestly told the world what kind of the man he was and what kind of the world he lived in and in spite of anything he became a writer鈥� one of the most uncompromising writers.
Henry Chinaski 鈥� an alter ego of Charles Bukowski 鈥� was a special kind of factotum 鈥� he was an employee who didn鈥檛 want to do any kind of work.
鈥淚鈥檓 a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.鈥�
鈥淥h, a writer, eh?鈥�
鈥渊别蝉.鈥�
鈥淎re you sure?鈥�
鈥淣o, I鈥檓 not.鈥�
鈥淲hat do you write?鈥�
鈥淪hort stories mostly. And I鈥檓 halfway through a novel.鈥�
鈥淎 novel, eh?鈥�
鈥渊别蝉.鈥�
鈥淲hat鈥檚 the name of it?鈥�
鈥溾€楾he Leaky Faucet of My Doom.鈥欌€�
鈥淥h, I like that. What鈥檚 it about?鈥�
鈥淓惫别谤测迟丑颈苍驳.鈥�
鈥淓verything? You mean, for instance, it鈥檚 about cancer?鈥�
鈥渊别蝉.鈥�
鈥淗ow about my wife?鈥�
鈥淪he鈥檚 in there too.鈥�
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 say. Why do you want to work in a ladies鈥� dress shop?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檝e always liked ladies in ladies鈥� dresses.鈥�
Dull jobs in the dull world: he didn鈥檛 care about anything. He wanted to be a writer. And he kept writing all the time and anywhere.
I drank for some time, three or four days. I couldn鈥檛 get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn鈥檛 have you by the throat.
He honestly told the world what kind of the man he was and what kind of the world he lived in and in spite of anything he became a writer鈥� one of the most uncompromising writers.
March 14, 2013
There were times while reading this short novel that I had to stop and wonder if my aspiration to one day be the female Bukowski is either setting my sights too high or placing the bar too low.
And then I up and went to a bar, since I was reading this on the anniversary of the Dirtiest Old Man in Literature's passing and all, so I stopped worrying about pretty much everything. YOU'RE STILL MY BOY, BUK.
And then I up and went to a bar, since I was reading this on the anniversary of the Dirtiest Old Man in Literature's passing and all, so I stopped worrying about pretty much everything. YOU'RE STILL MY BOY, BUK.
July 13, 2023
A Jack Kerouac-type story of bumming across the country. But Hank Chinaski, our main character, started in LA and went east while Jack started east and went west.
Jack would be a fun guy to have a beer with. And so would Hank except that with Hank, at the end of the night, you鈥檇 have to call a cab, dump him in the back seat and give the cabbie his address, (to some run-down boarding house with bedbugs). Somehow next morning you鈥檇 still end up posting bail for him.
The author lived the life of his character, at least for ten years when he was a raving alcoholic. Bukowski wrote many novels but was better known as a poet in his lifetime (1920-1994). Someone called the author the 鈥淧oet Laureate of Lowlife.鈥�
In the book, Hank is a full-blown alcoholic, working a job now and then to get enough money for his next binge. He loves to travel cross-country by bus and train, his suitcase filled with pints of whisky. In the book he starts out in New Orleans and travels to LA, then Philly and St. Louis, LA again, Miami and back to LA. (Although published in 1975, the story is set in the 1940s just after WW II.)
His parents are in LA. When he comes home, drunk of course, there are tears, screaming, slappings from his mother, and fist fights with his father. Living at home is 鈥渘ot an option.鈥�
He鈥檚 constantly hitting on women in low-life bars and has a high success ratio 鈥� they are almost always prostitutes. So we have some graphic sex, and a bit about bodily functions that strikes me as almost 鈥榠n celebration' of the fact that it is 1975 and you could write stuff like that now and still get published.
Of course Hank is a misogynist. We also have the occasional inappropriate remarks about Jews, Blacks, Hispanics and gays. When he cleans up his hotel room he thinks 鈥淚 must be turning fag.鈥� But as drinking buddies, Hank loves everyone until he decides to slap a woman or punch a guy out.
Hank is an aspiring writer who sends stories out weekly and occasionally has one published for $50. But in the meantime (years) a lot of the story is about the low-level jobs he worked.
This is the only novel I鈥檝e read that gives you an accurate idea of what it鈥檚 like to work jobs like these because I did too, and Bukowski tells it like it is. As a kid in high school and college I worked part-time evenings and full-time summers in three grocery stores (meat, produce and stocking shelves), clean-up boy in Woolworths, boxing hot-dog buns in an automated bakery, a hardware warehouse unloading trucks, taxi driver, a soda-canning plant, and three plastics factories (including the Titleist golf-ball factory!) and as a salesclerk in Western Auto (anyone remember those?).
I liked the story and it鈥檚 an easy read with straight-forward writing. I鈥檓 glad I read something by a new author previously unknown to me. Since then I've also read and enjoyed his novel Post Office.
[Revised 7/13/23]
The author's grave in Los Angeles from, wikipedia
Workers in a Texas onion warehouse in the 1950s from texashistoryarchives.com
The author from amazon.com
Jack would be a fun guy to have a beer with. And so would Hank except that with Hank, at the end of the night, you鈥檇 have to call a cab, dump him in the back seat and give the cabbie his address, (to some run-down boarding house with bedbugs). Somehow next morning you鈥檇 still end up posting bail for him.
The author lived the life of his character, at least for ten years when he was a raving alcoholic. Bukowski wrote many novels but was better known as a poet in his lifetime (1920-1994). Someone called the author the 鈥淧oet Laureate of Lowlife.鈥�
In the book, Hank is a full-blown alcoholic, working a job now and then to get enough money for his next binge. He loves to travel cross-country by bus and train, his suitcase filled with pints of whisky. In the book he starts out in New Orleans and travels to LA, then Philly and St. Louis, LA again, Miami and back to LA. (Although published in 1975, the story is set in the 1940s just after WW II.)
His parents are in LA. When he comes home, drunk of course, there are tears, screaming, slappings from his mother, and fist fights with his father. Living at home is 鈥渘ot an option.鈥�
He鈥檚 constantly hitting on women in low-life bars and has a high success ratio 鈥� they are almost always prostitutes. So we have some graphic sex, and a bit about bodily functions that strikes me as almost 鈥榠n celebration' of the fact that it is 1975 and you could write stuff like that now and still get published.
Of course Hank is a misogynist. We also have the occasional inappropriate remarks about Jews, Blacks, Hispanics and gays. When he cleans up his hotel room he thinks 鈥淚 must be turning fag.鈥� But as drinking buddies, Hank loves everyone until he decides to slap a woman or punch a guy out.
Hank is an aspiring writer who sends stories out weekly and occasionally has one published for $50. But in the meantime (years) a lot of the story is about the low-level jobs he worked.
This is the only novel I鈥檝e read that gives you an accurate idea of what it鈥檚 like to work jobs like these because I did too, and Bukowski tells it like it is. As a kid in high school and college I worked part-time evenings and full-time summers in three grocery stores (meat, produce and stocking shelves), clean-up boy in Woolworths, boxing hot-dog buns in an automated bakery, a hardware warehouse unloading trucks, taxi driver, a soda-canning plant, and three plastics factories (including the Titleist golf-ball factory!) and as a salesclerk in Western Auto (anyone remember those?).
I liked the story and it鈥檚 an easy read with straight-forward writing. I鈥檓 glad I read something by a new author previously unknown to me. Since then I've also read and enjoyed his novel Post Office.
[Revised 7/13/23]
The author's grave in Los Angeles from, wikipedia
Workers in a Texas onion warehouse in the 1950s from texashistoryarchives.com
The author from amazon.com
October 16, 2021
Factotum, Charles Bukowski
Factotum (1975) is the second novel by German born American author Charles Bukowski.
Set in the 1940's, the plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually unemployed, alcoholic alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum).
Chinaski drifts through the seedy city streets of lower-class Los Angeles in search of a job that will not come between him and his first love: writing.
He is consistently rejected by the only publishing house he respects, but is driven to continue by the knowledge that he could do better than the authors they publish.
Chinaski begins sleeping with fellow barfly Jan, a kindred spirit he meets while drowning his sorrows at a bar.
When a brief stint as a bookie finds him abandoned by the only woman with whom he is able to relate, a fling with gold-digging floozy Laura finds him once again falling into a morose state of perpetual drunkenness and unemployment.
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Factotum (1975) is the second novel by German born American author Charles Bukowski.
Set in the 1940's, the plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually unemployed, alcoholic alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum).
Chinaski drifts through the seedy city streets of lower-class Los Angeles in search of a job that will not come between him and his first love: writing.
He is consistently rejected by the only publishing house he respects, but is driven to continue by the knowledge that he could do better than the authors they publish.
Chinaski begins sleeping with fellow barfly Jan, a kindred spirit he meets while drowning his sorrows at a bar.
When a brief stint as a bookie finds him abandoned by the only woman with whom he is able to relate, a fling with gold-digging floozy Laura finds him once again falling into a morose state of perpetual drunkenness and unemployment.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 06/09/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
August 5, 2020
蹿补肠路迟辞路迟耻尘
/蹿补办藞迟艒诲蓹尘/
noun
An employee who does all kinds of work.
Welcome Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's ever sarcastic, cynical, alcoholic and perpetually unemployed alter-ego. It's the 1940s, Chinaski had been rejected by the World War II drafts on account of his mental health, and he's searching for a job. A job that would serve him nicely and won't come in between him and his true love: writing.
鈥淗ow in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?鈥�
Chinaski works one menial job after another and gets thrown out of most, except the ones he leaves on his own (hence, factotum). He constantly writes short-stories to Clay Gladmore, whose New York magazine "Frontfire" he admired. As it happens, all of them come back with a rejection slip.
鈥淣othing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.鈥�
As with most Chinaski stories, we end up finding love over drinks at a bar....
"Baby,鈥� I said, 鈥淚鈥檓 a genius but nobody knows it but me.鈥�
She looked down at me. 鈥淕et up off the floor you damn fool and get me a drink. "
....or over a hamburger and beer....
"She was strange; she was always hot in the morning with her hangovers. I was not so hot in the mornings with mine. I was a night man. But at night she was always screaming and throwing things at me: telephones, telephone books, bottles, glasses (full and empty), radios, purses, guitars, ashtrays, dictionaries, broken watch bands, alarm clocks鈥he was an unusual woman."
....only to lose it all.
鈥淚 hate it when he fucks me,鈥� Jan had said. She was now probably saying the same thing about me to him.
In the end, we just get a full-on Bukowski moment at a strip-joint, as we prepare to go out in a blaze of unemployed, poverty-stricken, alcoholic frenzy, but....
"And I couldn鈥檛 get it up."
Loved this book, from start to finish.
March 5, 2022
FALSO MOVIMENTO
Il film omonimo del 2005 diretto da Bent Hamer con Matti Dillon nei panni di Chinaski.
Questa edizione arriva con una ghiottissima prefazione di Beniamino Placido e io non riesco a trattenere un peana per quest鈥檜omo cos矛 intelligente e colto e divertente e misurato che mi ha regalato tanti momenti belli, letture insieme profonde e spassose, che leggevo e studiavo anche se non era testo in programma, l鈥檜nico che mi ha spinto a leggere la rubrica 鈥楾elevisione鈥� su un quotidiano perch茅 quando la teneva lui, per anni su Repubblica, era brillante intelligente colta ma non snob, e dopo di lui il diluvio鈥�
Cosa non si fa per portare a casa un fiasco di vino...
Factotum 猫 il secondo romanzo di Bukowski, pubblicato a quattro anni dal primo (1975) e secondo me insieme a quello rimane il suo miglior lavoro, almeno nel campo del romanzo (se ne contano sei in tutto, 36 raccolte di poesie e 14 di racconti, per un totale di 1446 scritti brevi 鈥� viene da pensare che non reggesse alla distanza causa sonnolenza alcolica).
La migliore compagnia.
Come il titolo indica chiaramente 猫 la storia di un uomo che fa tutto: Hank Chinasky, il suo eterno alter ego protagonista, se ne va in giro per gli States come un hobo, come un beatnik alla Kerouac trent鈥檃nni dopo, da una citt脿 all鈥檃ltra da un mestiere all鈥檃ltro, guadagnandosi il pane, o meglio, il vino e altri alcolici purch茅 economici, facendo tutti i lavori che trova e che gli capitano. Sono ovviamente tutti lavori di fatica manuale, tutti alquanto umilianti.
E comunque Hank ci mette poco a sentirsi umiliato, e alienato, e fuori posto, e sprecato: litiga, protesta, arriva tardi, se ne va prima, 猫 distratto, ama le marachelle, non calcola le conseguenze...
Come dice il mio amato prefatore, sono dissidenti, sia lui, Chinaski, che l鈥檃ltro, Bukowski:
Per farla breve, sappiamo benissimo che fra i due sistemi, quello sovietico, quello americano, le differenze storiche culturali istituzionali sono immense. Per貌 questi due grandi paesi qualche elemento in comune ce l鈥檋anno. Sono capaci di possenti sforzi finanziari per mandare missili nel cielo ed eserciti sulla terra: ma quanto alla vita quotidiana che sono in grado di garantire ai loro umili sudditi, 猫, dall鈥檜na e dall鈥檃ltra parte, orrenda.
D鈥檃ltra parte, i padroni, i datori di lavoro quando va bene sono paternalistici, supponenti e imbroglioni:
La probit脿 laboriosa che si aspettano dai sottoposti, non ce la mettono mica tanto nei loro affari. Rubano sulle vernici, imbrogliano sui pezzi di ricambio, fregano nei ristoranti.
Anche qui centocinquanta smilze paginette senza un vero plot, e se c鈥櫭� non si nota, il tempo scorre e le attivit脿 si susseguono, entrambi, attivit脿 e tempo, si ripetono, il tasso alcolico 猫 elevato, il sesso domina, anche se il romanzo chiude con un desolante:
E io non riuscivo a rizzarlo.
脠 la scrittura che regna sovrana, diretta, immediata, spumeggiante nella sua semplicit脿.
脠 l鈥檜manit脿 che trasuda e traspare.
脠 la poesia che viene fuori.
脠 il punto di vista, cos矛 basso 猫 difficile trovarne un altro: ma ci porta in alto, ci fa dominare il mondo. 脠 la voce degli ultimi, che non saranno mai primi, ma che grazie a lui acquistano almeno voce.
Il film omonimo del 2005 diretto da Bent Hamer con Matti Dillon nei panni di Chinaski.
Questa edizione arriva con una ghiottissima prefazione di Beniamino Placido e io non riesco a trattenere un peana per quest鈥檜omo cos矛 intelligente e colto e divertente e misurato che mi ha regalato tanti momenti belli, letture insieme profonde e spassose, che leggevo e studiavo anche se non era testo in programma, l鈥檜nico che mi ha spinto a leggere la rubrica 鈥楾elevisione鈥� su un quotidiano perch茅 quando la teneva lui, per anni su Repubblica, era brillante intelligente colta ma non snob, e dopo di lui il diluvio鈥�
Cosa non si fa per portare a casa un fiasco di vino...
Factotum 猫 il secondo romanzo di Bukowski, pubblicato a quattro anni dal primo (1975) e secondo me insieme a quello rimane il suo miglior lavoro, almeno nel campo del romanzo (se ne contano sei in tutto, 36 raccolte di poesie e 14 di racconti, per un totale di 1446 scritti brevi 鈥� viene da pensare che non reggesse alla distanza causa sonnolenza alcolica).
La migliore compagnia.
Come il titolo indica chiaramente 猫 la storia di un uomo che fa tutto: Hank Chinasky, il suo eterno alter ego protagonista, se ne va in giro per gli States come un hobo, come un beatnik alla Kerouac trent鈥檃nni dopo, da una citt脿 all鈥檃ltra da un mestiere all鈥檃ltro, guadagnandosi il pane, o meglio, il vino e altri alcolici purch茅 economici, facendo tutti i lavori che trova e che gli capitano. Sono ovviamente tutti lavori di fatica manuale, tutti alquanto umilianti.
E comunque Hank ci mette poco a sentirsi umiliato, e alienato, e fuori posto, e sprecato: litiga, protesta, arriva tardi, se ne va prima, 猫 distratto, ama le marachelle, non calcola le conseguenze...
Come dice il mio amato prefatore, sono dissidenti, sia lui, Chinaski, che l鈥檃ltro, Bukowski:
Per farla breve, sappiamo benissimo che fra i due sistemi, quello sovietico, quello americano, le differenze storiche culturali istituzionali sono immense. Per貌 questi due grandi paesi qualche elemento in comune ce l鈥檋anno. Sono capaci di possenti sforzi finanziari per mandare missili nel cielo ed eserciti sulla terra: ma quanto alla vita quotidiana che sono in grado di garantire ai loro umili sudditi, 猫, dall鈥檜na e dall鈥檃ltra parte, orrenda.
D鈥檃ltra parte, i padroni, i datori di lavoro quando va bene sono paternalistici, supponenti e imbroglioni:
La probit脿 laboriosa che si aspettano dai sottoposti, non ce la mettono mica tanto nei loro affari. Rubano sulle vernici, imbrogliano sui pezzi di ricambio, fregano nei ristoranti.
Anche qui centocinquanta smilze paginette senza un vero plot, e se c鈥櫭� non si nota, il tempo scorre e le attivit脿 si susseguono, entrambi, attivit脿 e tempo, si ripetono, il tasso alcolico 猫 elevato, il sesso domina, anche se il romanzo chiude con un desolante:
E io non riuscivo a rizzarlo.
脠 la scrittura che regna sovrana, diretta, immediata, spumeggiante nella sua semplicit脿.
脠 l鈥檜manit脿 che trasuda e traspare.
脠 la poesia che viene fuori.
脠 il punto di vista, cos矛 basso 猫 difficile trovarne un altro: ma ci porta in alto, ci fa dominare il mondo. 脠 la voce degli ultimi, che non saranno mai primi, ma che grazie a lui acquistano almeno voce.
August 3, 2016
I have a sort of pre-emptive dislike-verging-on-loathing of Bukowski, which I think is rooted in my post-adolescent rejection of and disillusionment with the Beat writers (whom I absolutely adored in high school). I鈥檝e never read Bukowski before, but I鈥檝e seen Barfly and Factotum on the screen. I鈥檝e seen two documentaries about him which likewise left me more disgusted and depressed than anything. This is where I鈥檓 coming from. There鈥檚 also that aided in informing me about the man.
One of my poet friends in high school once told me that he only would read Bukowski while taking a shit. This has stuck with me over the years. Once, a girl I became involved with praised Bukowski while simultaneously giving me a caveat about what a terrible sexist he was. This is where I鈥檓 coming from.
I started reading this one on the shitter after a long day鈥檚 work. Then I moved to the couch where I drank alcohol and chain-smoked cigarettes while zooming through the book. I sneered at the blunt simplicity of the sentences at first, feeling the intense distance between this kind of writing and the George Saunder鈥檚 stories I鈥檇 been reading recently, as well as the generally more stylistically interesting and intellectually potent books I tend to gravitate towards. But I still felt entertained by this stuff, nonetheless. As more Tesco brand scotch intersected with my veins, I began to see slightly more nuance to this rather thematically repetitive first-person, clearly auto-bio stuff that Bukowski had written about a drunk-as-shit-nihilist/struggling writer who clearly is himself. Very little imagination seemed to be at work here. Just the spilt guts of a self-aggrandizing louse. But yet, I continued to be entertained, so I pressed on, feeling each sentence flow by without much effort on my part. Following the narrative of being employed many, many times, failing and getting fired just as many, drinking, drinking, drinking (to a sickening degree), and barnacle-ing to the hulls of a series of horrendously-depicted females. That鈥檚 about all there is to this novel. Working, Drinking, Fucking. Rinse, repeat.
鈥淓ven the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.鈥�
But amidst the misspelled words (鈥渉e lighted his cigarette鈥�) and dumb-assed factual errors (the USA fighting China in WWII) I gradually found some remarkably 鈥渉uman鈥� moments speckled within the details. There鈥檚 a potent dissatisfaction with the exploitative nature of American Capitalism to be found within the job-after-fucking-job experiences the narrator tumbles through. There鈥檚 something weirdly edifying in witnessing the details of a severe drunk鈥檚 day-to-day physical ailments and triumphs and tribulations, even when nauseating, like most of them are. Even the contemptible attitudes displayed toward women have an oddly true ring to them. This is NOT to say that I agree with treating women like shit the way Bukowski clearly does, but that his shittiness is a stark reminder of certain horrible realities that do certainly exist in the minds of many men. And this I found interesting, in an historico-anthropological sort of way, while simultaneously depressing and upsetting.
And then I thought of Raymond Carver. He also was once a real-life drunk of epic proportions who wrote in tight, blunt, staccato, matter-of-fact sentence-lumps, consistently describing soul-crushing work-weeks, oceans of booze and cluttered ashtrays. Why do I like his writing so much and yet feel this strong, largely pre-emptive aversion to Bukowski? That鈥檚 the question. Carver's prose-style is really no more innovative or poetic than Chuck鈥檚, but yet when I read two of Carver鈥檚 collections I encountered them with such a different attitude and happy reception. Carver, for one, doesn鈥檛 denigrate women the way Bukowski does. That鈥檚 one thing. And while he speaks of little else beyond sad, failed, alcoholic people, he manages to make it seem far less about him--the almighty, misanthropic author--and more about said sad, failed, alcoholic people. There鈥檚 an extremely off-putting narcissism to Bukowski, so far as I can tell from reading a single book of his, which Carver elegantly transcends, despite similar style and content.
But then I wonder, is there more buried deep within the the wine-soaked walls of Bukowski than lets on immediately? Or, do I perhaps harbor some of the same misanthropy that he nakedly exposes one word to the next? Am I really any better? Well, my answer to the first query is still "NO" and my response to the second still "YES" but contemplating these things during my read was enriching in some way, so I reluctantly give some credit there to ol' CB.
But what was Bukowski, really? A terminally depressed, ego-maniac/self-hater with a bottle permanently pressed to his lips. Some part of me can resonate with this, as much as I high-falutin-ly know that this is the case. There鈥檚 a dark knot of nihilism stuck inside my heart, I know this. Perhaps reading these rather bleak and repetitive exploits of Bukowski鈥檚 tingles some part of that in me that seeks connection and recognition. I do not know for sure.
One of my poet friends in high school once told me that he only would read Bukowski while taking a shit. This has stuck with me over the years. Once, a girl I became involved with praised Bukowski while simultaneously giving me a caveat about what a terrible sexist he was. This is where I鈥檓 coming from.
I started reading this one on the shitter after a long day鈥檚 work. Then I moved to the couch where I drank alcohol and chain-smoked cigarettes while zooming through the book. I sneered at the blunt simplicity of the sentences at first, feeling the intense distance between this kind of writing and the George Saunder鈥檚 stories I鈥檇 been reading recently, as well as the generally more stylistically interesting and intellectually potent books I tend to gravitate towards. But I still felt entertained by this stuff, nonetheless. As more Tesco brand scotch intersected with my veins, I began to see slightly more nuance to this rather thematically repetitive first-person, clearly auto-bio stuff that Bukowski had written about a drunk-as-shit-nihilist/struggling writer who clearly is himself. Very little imagination seemed to be at work here. Just the spilt guts of a self-aggrandizing louse. But yet, I continued to be entertained, so I pressed on, feeling each sentence flow by without much effort on my part. Following the narrative of being employed many, many times, failing and getting fired just as many, drinking, drinking, drinking (to a sickening degree), and barnacle-ing to the hulls of a series of horrendously-depicted females. That鈥檚 about all there is to this novel. Working, Drinking, Fucking. Rinse, repeat.
鈥淓ven the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.鈥�
But amidst the misspelled words (鈥渉e lighted his cigarette鈥�) and dumb-assed factual errors (the USA fighting China in WWII) I gradually found some remarkably 鈥渉uman鈥� moments speckled within the details. There鈥檚 a potent dissatisfaction with the exploitative nature of American Capitalism to be found within the job-after-fucking-job experiences the narrator tumbles through. There鈥檚 something weirdly edifying in witnessing the details of a severe drunk鈥檚 day-to-day physical ailments and triumphs and tribulations, even when nauseating, like most of them are. Even the contemptible attitudes displayed toward women have an oddly true ring to them. This is NOT to say that I agree with treating women like shit the way Bukowski clearly does, but that his shittiness is a stark reminder of certain horrible realities that do certainly exist in the minds of many men. And this I found interesting, in an historico-anthropological sort of way, while simultaneously depressing and upsetting.
And then I thought of Raymond Carver. He also was once a real-life drunk of epic proportions who wrote in tight, blunt, staccato, matter-of-fact sentence-lumps, consistently describing soul-crushing work-weeks, oceans of booze and cluttered ashtrays. Why do I like his writing so much and yet feel this strong, largely pre-emptive aversion to Bukowski? That鈥檚 the question. Carver's prose-style is really no more innovative or poetic than Chuck鈥檚, but yet when I read two of Carver鈥檚 collections I encountered them with such a different attitude and happy reception. Carver, for one, doesn鈥檛 denigrate women the way Bukowski does. That鈥檚 one thing. And while he speaks of little else beyond sad, failed, alcoholic people, he manages to make it seem far less about him--the almighty, misanthropic author--and more about said sad, failed, alcoholic people. There鈥檚 an extremely off-putting narcissism to Bukowski, so far as I can tell from reading a single book of his, which Carver elegantly transcends, despite similar style and content.
But then I wonder, is there more buried deep within the the wine-soaked walls of Bukowski than lets on immediately? Or, do I perhaps harbor some of the same misanthropy that he nakedly exposes one word to the next? Am I really any better? Well, my answer to the first query is still "NO" and my response to the second still "YES" but contemplating these things during my read was enriching in some way, so I reluctantly give some credit there to ol' CB.
But what was Bukowski, really? A terminally depressed, ego-maniac/self-hater with a bottle permanently pressed to his lips. Some part of me can resonate with this, as much as I high-falutin-ly know that this is the case. There鈥檚 a dark knot of nihilism stuck inside my heart, I know this. Perhaps reading these rather bleak and repetitive exploits of Bukowski鈥檚 tingles some part of that in me that seeks connection and recognition. I do not know for sure.
August 18, 2019
I love this poem about the drunken Charles Bukowski, written by Raymond Carver, depicting (fictional?) Buk speaking to a bunch of creative writing students, in 鈥淵ou Don鈥檛 Know What Love Is鈥�:
A 鈥渇actotum鈥� describes someone who does a range of "low-level" (meaning low-paid) work. This short novel I listened to, which makes it a bit like a guy telling you his life story while drinking you under the table (oh, he always could, and even now, years gone, could probably still do it). I was driving while listening to it, and not drinking as I was driving, for your information, thanks. The story is really a prequel to Ham and Rye, which was about the early years of Henry Chinaski, Bukowksi鈥檚 mostly (I am told) autobiographical main character. If Ham on Rye is about Chinaski's lost youth, Buk's second one features Chinaski's lost twenties about booze, terrible jobs, women, and drunken brawls. Because of the title, there might be a greater focus here on all the soul-killing, mind-numbing jobs he worked to pay for flophouse rent and booze, almost all of them from which he was fired, sometimes after only a day.
In one job, he got paid by a bar owner 5 bucks and all the shots of whiskey he could drink to clean a total of six window blinds, which as it turns out took him all day, and in the end required鈥攂ecause he was of course drunk鈥攖he help of all his fellow bar patrons, for whom he used the five bucks to buy a round (this was the fifties, when five bucks could actually almost buy a bar full of patrons a round; well, almost. In the end he had to put $8.50 on the tab he owed the bartender).
Bukowski also worked at Sears FIVE different times during this period, fired each time for stealing and various other infractions. Usually for not showing up for work while he was on a three-day bender with some girl, or healing from some fight. Hey, I worked at Sears, in the stockroom, for a year or so! Boring job, in which I hid out and read books during long evening shifts. Did I ever sneak in a bottle of wine for me and my fellow misery-suffering-warehouse rats? I seem to recall I may have done this once or twice, but you ain't a priest, and this ain't no confessional booth.
Factotum doesn鈥檛 quite have the innocence of Ham and Rye, when he actually just lusted after various girls and women, when he was just a kid. In this book he actually has a lot of sex, some of it funny, all of it described in gloriously vulgar detail, though finally, as with the jobs, it鈥檚 really mostly misery, all the time. He鈥檚 going nowhere fast. And it feels like the well-told raucous romp of a million alcoholics. And a guy who is during this time often an unapologetic asshole. I think you could ask any of the women he was 鈥渨ith鈥� during this period for their view of him and it would not be positive (though when they were drinking with him, at least, I am sure they had fun).
But can I turn away and stop listening? Nope. Bukowski will be hilarious for some, and too offensive for many, but he sure can tell a story. The poverty and squalor of Factotum is not quite as fun as it was in Ham and Rye, but at his best, Bukowski is worth the offense, imho:
鈥淚t was true that I didn鈥檛 have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?鈥�
Who in working class America cannot raise a glass to that? In the end, Bukowski reveals himself in all his assholism to be in the company of other great and painful stories of the ravages of booze, such as Malcolm Lowry鈥檚 Under the Volcano, or any Kerouac, or Raymond Carver鈥檚 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Bukowski almost convinces you that the pursuit of drunkenness as a way of coping with reality is a kind of spiritual pursuit:
鈥淚f you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery鈥攊solation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.鈥�
Factotum is not for everyone, I warn you, or welcome you, depending on your love of the tales of the down and out.
A 鈥渇actotum鈥� describes someone who does a range of "low-level" (meaning low-paid) work. This short novel I listened to, which makes it a bit like a guy telling you his life story while drinking you under the table (oh, he always could, and even now, years gone, could probably still do it). I was driving while listening to it, and not drinking as I was driving, for your information, thanks. The story is really a prequel to Ham and Rye, which was about the early years of Henry Chinaski, Bukowksi鈥檚 mostly (I am told) autobiographical main character. If Ham on Rye is about Chinaski's lost youth, Buk's second one features Chinaski's lost twenties about booze, terrible jobs, women, and drunken brawls. Because of the title, there might be a greater focus here on all the soul-killing, mind-numbing jobs he worked to pay for flophouse rent and booze, almost all of them from which he was fired, sometimes after only a day.
In one job, he got paid by a bar owner 5 bucks and all the shots of whiskey he could drink to clean a total of six window blinds, which as it turns out took him all day, and in the end required鈥攂ecause he was of course drunk鈥攖he help of all his fellow bar patrons, for whom he used the five bucks to buy a round (this was the fifties, when five bucks could actually almost buy a bar full of patrons a round; well, almost. In the end he had to put $8.50 on the tab he owed the bartender).
Bukowski also worked at Sears FIVE different times during this period, fired each time for stealing and various other infractions. Usually for not showing up for work while he was on a three-day bender with some girl, or healing from some fight. Hey, I worked at Sears, in the stockroom, for a year or so! Boring job, in which I hid out and read books during long evening shifts. Did I ever sneak in a bottle of wine for me and my fellow misery-suffering-warehouse rats? I seem to recall I may have done this once or twice, but you ain't a priest, and this ain't no confessional booth.
Factotum doesn鈥檛 quite have the innocence of Ham and Rye, when he actually just lusted after various girls and women, when he was just a kid. In this book he actually has a lot of sex, some of it funny, all of it described in gloriously vulgar detail, though finally, as with the jobs, it鈥檚 really mostly misery, all the time. He鈥檚 going nowhere fast. And it feels like the well-told raucous romp of a million alcoholics. And a guy who is during this time often an unapologetic asshole. I think you could ask any of the women he was 鈥渨ith鈥� during this period for their view of him and it would not be positive (though when they were drinking with him, at least, I am sure they had fun).
But can I turn away and stop listening? Nope. Bukowski will be hilarious for some, and too offensive for many, but he sure can tell a story. The poverty and squalor of Factotum is not quite as fun as it was in Ham and Rye, but at his best, Bukowski is worth the offense, imho:
鈥淚t was true that I didn鈥檛 have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?鈥�
Who in working class America cannot raise a glass to that? In the end, Bukowski reveals himself in all his assholism to be in the company of other great and painful stories of the ravages of booze, such as Malcolm Lowry鈥檚 Under the Volcano, or any Kerouac, or Raymond Carver鈥檚 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Bukowski almost convinces you that the pursuit of drunkenness as a way of coping with reality is a kind of spiritual pursuit:
鈥淚f you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery鈥攊solation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.鈥�
Factotum is not for everyone, I warn you, or welcome you, depending on your love of the tales of the down and out.
January 2, 2019
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August 14, 2023
鈥淟a gente no necesita amor, lo que necesita es triunfar en una cosa o en otra.鈥�Bukowsky-Chinasky es un tipo bastante desagradable, un ni帽o ego铆sta que solo responde a sus necesidades primarias m谩s inmediatas sin importarle鈥� no, sin que las posibles consecuencias puedan ejercer de freno alguno. Todo el que se acerque a 茅l acabar谩 sufriendo, especialmente las mujeres, y tampoco Chinasky escapar谩 a tal fin.
鈥溌緾贸mo co帽o pod铆a un hombre disfrutar si su sue帽o era interrumpido a las 6:30 de la ma帽ana por el estr茅pito de un despertador, ten铆a que saltar fuera de la cama, vestirse, desayunar sin ganas, cagar, mear, cepillarse los dientes y el pelo y pelear con el tr谩fico hasta llegar a un lugar donde esencialmente ganaba cantidad de dinero para alg煤n otro y a煤n as铆 se le exig铆a mostrarse agradecido por tener la oportunidad de hacerlo?鈥�芦Factotum禄 trata sobre la maldici贸n de trabajar. Chinaski empieza a publicar alguno de sus cuentos (a pesar de su escaso 茅xito, 茅l est谩 seguro de su genialidad, como en su d铆a su admirado Fante), pero eso no le da para vivir ni mucho menos y necesita de un trabajo, aunque el trabajo le deje muy claro una y otra vez que no lo necesita a 茅l.
鈥溾€擳en茅is un trabajo aqu铆 de lo m谩s repugnante. 驴Por qu茅 lo hac茅is?Pero no es que Chinaski sea un luchador por la clase obrera, nada m谩s lejos de la realidad. En los pocos momentos que disfrut贸 de algo de poder se comport贸 con sus subordinados como el m谩s hijodeputa de sus jefes, y tuvo unos cuantos hijosdeputas. El 煤nico arma que esgrime contra la sociedad que odia es la botella, su segunda gran necesidad, que cubr铆a con mucha generosidad a todas horas鈥� literalmente.
鈥擬ierda, no hay m谩s remedio.
鈥擡l Se帽or nos dijo que s铆 lo hay.
鈥斅緾rees t煤 en el Se帽or?
鈥擭辞.
鈥斅縀n qu茅 crees?
鈥擡n nada.
鈥擯ues igual que nosotros.鈥�
鈥淔rancamente, estaba horrorizado de la vida, de todo lo que un hombre ten铆a que hacer s贸lo para comer, dormir y poder vestirse. As铆 que me quedaba en la cama y beb铆a. Mientras beb铆as, el mundo segu铆a all铆 afuera, pero por el momento no te ten铆a agarrado por la garganta.鈥�A Chinasky-Bukowsky solo le interesa Bukowsky-Chinasky, el resto del mundo o respond铆a a sus necesidades o era algo que hab铆a que evitar, todo excepto 鈥渟u鈥� literatura (poca m谩s), la m煤sica cl谩sica, las carreras de caballos, la bebida y, por 煤ltimo, las mujeres.
鈥淓ntr茅 y sub铆 las escaleras detr谩s de ella. Tendr铆a unos cuarenta y cinco a帽os, pero su culo se mov铆a graciosamente. He seguido a tantas mujeres de este modo por las escaleras, siempre pensando que si una agradable dama como 茅sta se ofreciera a cuidar de m铆 y alimentarme con guisos calientes y sabrosos y limpiarme los calcetines y los calzoncillos, aceptar铆a al instante.鈥�Unas mujeres, que, de forma sorprendente, se empecinaban en permanecer a su lado, si bien, a falta de cama o botella, el medio de comunicaci贸n m谩s usual era la pelea鈥� bueno, incluso con cama o botella de por medio. El resto de la humanidad parece m谩s bien molestarle.
鈥淵o era un hombre que me alimentaba de soledad; sin ella era como cualquier otro hombre privado de agua y comida. Cada d铆a sin soledad me debilitaba. No me enorgullec铆a de mi soledad, pero depend铆a de ella. La oscuridad de la habitaci贸n era fortificante para m铆 como lo era la luz del sol para otros hombres.鈥�芦Factotum禄 sigue la estela de 鈥淐artero鈥� pero a lo bestia, hay m谩s trabajos odiosos, m谩s alcohol, m谩s folleteos, m谩s fuerza en su prosa, m谩s mala leche en sus di谩logos, en los pensamientos y en las actitudes de Chinaski, m谩s dejadez en su proceder, m谩s misantrop铆a, m谩s ego铆smo en sus relaciones con las mujeres鈥� m谩s de todo. Que lo disfruten... m谩s.
鈥溾赌斅縈耻箩别谤别蝉?
鈥擜 veces, pero nunca dura.
鈥斅緾u谩l es el problema?
鈥擴na mujer es una ocupaci贸n para todo el d铆a. Tienes que elegir entre ella o tu profesi贸n.
鈥擸o creo que existe un desahogo emocional.
鈥擸 f铆sico tambi茅n. Ellas quieren follar d铆a y noche.
鈥擝煤scate una con la que te guste follar.
鈥擲铆, pero si t煤 bebes o juegas, ellas se creen que est谩s despreciando su amor.
鈥擝煤scate una a la que le guste beber, jugar y follar.
鈥斅縌ui茅n quiere una mujer as铆?鈥�
December 10, 2021
When the undercurrent of life starts to pull you away even struggling against it can take you further away...this book is the perfect example of this. Over the years I have really come to appreciate the raw honesty of Bukowski - his work was always true to who he was. Sometimes I go to the used bookstore by my house just to see if any of his works are there.
August 22, 2019
Site-seeing on a Budget
The human body comes equipped with any number of genetic and acquired defects. Yet it is very difficult to kill. This seems to be the principal message of most of Bukowski鈥檚 work. To the extent his protagonist, Hank Chinaski, is biographical, one can only marvel at his ability to survive such largely self-inflicted misery and his refrainment from self-immolation.
鈥淭he desire to find a job did not seem to be with me,鈥� Chinaski says after enduring several weeks of virtual starvation and sleeping on park benches, and just prior to decking his nagging father. Chinaski is a mystical bum who depends a great deal on the spirit to move him to anything more challenging than a glass of beer. To suggest Chinaski is hapless might imply that he cares about his fate. He doesn鈥檛. His aimless wandering is his purpose.
New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, and just about everywhere in between. It鈥檚 not clear why Chinaski travels; all the sleazy rooming houses and the low-life bars are the same. The jobs in each are different but their commonality is that no one else will do them. Besides, he is always alone in any case: 鈥淚 took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.鈥�
Miraculously, it seems, Chinaski finds the strength and the time between drinks to write his short stories - four or five a week. Dedicated to his art, when he isn鈥檛 falling off a barstool. The one thing he does have is a sort of vengeful hope that he can make it as a writer. The only thing he has to write about aside from the booze is random sex. It sells of course. Anyone who can have that much sex after that much alcohol has something important to say.
There is a certain seedy courtliness in Chinaski鈥檚 encounters. After one particularly vigorous session, for example, he can give credit when credit is due: 鈥渇or a woman with only one ovary she responded generously.鈥� And he is aware of gentlemanly obligations: 鈥淎 woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.鈥� If you鈥檙e a writer, this rules out anything serious. And it doesn鈥檛 inhibit the occasional punch out either. Chinaski is an abuser, even when he鈥檚 not drunk.
But the booze always wins, over and over again. The repetition is convincing but tedious. Going nowhere fast is a tough story to tell. Petty pilfering, collegial tiffs, office sex and descriptions of a variety of failing businesses don鈥檛 really sustain readerly interest.
The human body comes equipped with any number of genetic and acquired defects. Yet it is very difficult to kill. This seems to be the principal message of most of Bukowski鈥檚 work. To the extent his protagonist, Hank Chinaski, is biographical, one can only marvel at his ability to survive such largely self-inflicted misery and his refrainment from self-immolation.
鈥淭he desire to find a job did not seem to be with me,鈥� Chinaski says after enduring several weeks of virtual starvation and sleeping on park benches, and just prior to decking his nagging father. Chinaski is a mystical bum who depends a great deal on the spirit to move him to anything more challenging than a glass of beer. To suggest Chinaski is hapless might imply that he cares about his fate. He doesn鈥檛. His aimless wandering is his purpose.
New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, and just about everywhere in between. It鈥檚 not clear why Chinaski travels; all the sleazy rooming houses and the low-life bars are the same. The jobs in each are different but their commonality is that no one else will do them. Besides, he is always alone in any case: 鈥淚 took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.鈥�
Miraculously, it seems, Chinaski finds the strength and the time between drinks to write his short stories - four or five a week. Dedicated to his art, when he isn鈥檛 falling off a barstool. The one thing he does have is a sort of vengeful hope that he can make it as a writer. The only thing he has to write about aside from the booze is random sex. It sells of course. Anyone who can have that much sex after that much alcohol has something important to say.
There is a certain seedy courtliness in Chinaski鈥檚 encounters. After one particularly vigorous session, for example, he can give credit when credit is due: 鈥渇or a woman with only one ovary she responded generously.鈥� And he is aware of gentlemanly obligations: 鈥淎 woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.鈥� If you鈥檙e a writer, this rules out anything serious. And it doesn鈥檛 inhibit the occasional punch out either. Chinaski is an abuser, even when he鈥檚 not drunk.
But the booze always wins, over and over again. The repetition is convincing but tedious. Going nowhere fast is a tough story to tell. Petty pilfering, collegial tiffs, office sex and descriptions of a variety of failing businesses don鈥檛 really sustain readerly interest.
January 26, 2019
丕夭 丿蹖卮亘 讴賴 賳氐賮賴鈥屰� 丕賵賱 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲貙 丿丕卮鬲賲 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵 丕氐賱丕 亘賵讴賵賮爻讴蹖 趩蹖 丿丕乇丿 讴賴 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 賴賲賴 丿賵爻卮 丿丕乇蹖賲. 趩賴 趩蹖夭蹖 亘噩夭 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 丕乇賵鬲蹖讴 賵 賮丨卮鈥屬囏й� 禺賱丕賯丕賳賴 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 诏賮鬲賳! 賳賵卮鬲賴 亘賵丿賲: 芦賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 趩乇丕 讴鬲丕亘丕蹖 丕賵賳 禺丕氐 賵 賲賴賲 賵 賴賳乇賲賳丿丕賳賴 賲蹖鈥屫促嗀� 丕賲丕 爻亘讴 夭賳丿诏蹖賽 賲亘鬲賳蹖 亘乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵賳 讴鬲丕亘丕貙 賳賴丕蹖鬲 匕賱鬲 賵 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖賴.禄
賮讴乇 讴賳賲 丕賲卮亘 賮賴賲蹖丿賲. 賮賯胤 賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 丌禺乇賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 亘賵讴賵賮爻讴蹖 乇爻蹖丿賲賿 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮賴賲蹖丿賲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲賴鈥屰� 趩蹖夭蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 胤亘賯賴鈥屰� 讴丕乇诏乇 诏賮鬲貨 賴賲賴鈥屰� 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賲賵噩賵丿 丿乇 丕蹖賳 胤亘賯賴. 賴蹖趩讴爻 亘賴 禺賵丿卮 夭丨賲鬲 賳賲蹖鈥屫囏� 鬲丕 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕貙 芦丕夭 夭亘丕賳 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕禄 亘賳賵蹖爻丿貨 趩賵賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴鈥屬囏� 賴賲蹖卮賴 禺蹖賱蹖 丕鬲賵讴卮蹖丿賴鈥屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丨乇賮鈥屬囏� 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐嗀� 爻乇蹖毓丕 賲卮讴賱丕鬲 賲乇丿賲 乇丕 賳卮丕賳 丿賴賳丿 賵 丕夭 賮賯乇 卮讴丕蹖鬲 讴賳賳丿. 讴爻蹖 亘賴 芦鬲賵蹖禄 賮讴乇 賵 芦鬲賵蹖禄 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 丕賴賲蹖鬲蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫囏�.
亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 賵丕賯毓丕 亘鬲賵丕賳蹖 丿乇賲賵乇丿 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕 亘賳賵蹖爻蹖貙 亘丕蹖丿 讴丕乇诏乇 亘丕卮蹖貨 倬爻 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 禺亘乇蹖 丕夭 丕馗賴丕乇丕鬲 丕丿亘蹖鈥� 賵 乇賵卮賳賮讴乇丕賳賴鈥� 賳蹖爻鬲. 毓賵囟卮 讴鬲丕亘 倬乇 丕爻鬲 丕夭 賳賯丿賴丕蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 丕爻丕爻蹖 亘賴 卮蹖賵賴鈥屰� 亘賴乇賴鈥屭┴篡屸€屫簇� 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕. 卮蹖賵賴鈥屰� 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴爻丕賱鬲鈥屫ㄘж� 賵 丕夭禺賵丿亘蹖诏丕賳賴鈥屫池ж操� 讴丕乇賲賳丿蹖. 賵 賲賴賲鈥屫必� 鬲賵氐蹖賮賽 賮讴乇 賵 匕讴乇 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕蹖 亘毓丿 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳蹖 丿賵賲賽 丌賲乇蹖讴丕貨 讴賴 亘賴 賮讴乇 丕賱讴賱賽 丕賲卮亘 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 爻蹖诏丕乇 賵 夭賳貨 賵 禺丿丕 乇丕 賴賲 卮丕讴乇賳丿 亘丕亘鬲 丌賳鈥屭嗁� 讴賮 丿爻鬲卮丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭柏ж辟嗀� (亘丕 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 讴丕賲賱丕 賴賲 賵丕賯賮鈥屫з嗀� 讴賴 賳蹖賲蹖鈥� 丕夭 丨賯賵賯 賳丕趩蹖夭卮丕賳 乇丕 讴丕乇賮乇賲丕蹖蹖 亘乇賲蹖鈥屫ж必� 讴賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 卮亘蹖賴 亘乇丿賴鈥屫ж� 丕爻鬲 賵 氐丕丨亘丕賳 卮乇讴鬲鈥屬囏� 亘丕 毓乇賯 丌賳鈥屬囏� 倬賵賱丿丕乇鬲乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堎嗀�).
賴賲賴鈥屰� 丕蹖賳 丨乇賮鈥屬囏� 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫操嗀� 賵 賴賲蹖賳 讴賴 丕賵賱卮 丌丿賲 賳賲蹖鈥屫з嗀� 趩乇丕 丕蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 禺賵亘 丕爻鬲貙 賳卮丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 讴賴 趩賯丿乇 丿乇 亘蹖丕賳 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й屫� 禺賵賳爻乇丿 賵 賴賳乇賲賳丿 賵 亘夭乇诏鈥屬呝嗀� 丕爻鬲貙 趩丕乇賱夭 亘賵讴賵賮爻讴蹖.
賮讴乇 讴賳賲 丕賲卮亘 賮賴賲蹖丿賲. 賮賯胤 賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 丌禺乇賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 亘賵讴賵賮爻讴蹖 乇爻蹖丿賲賿 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮賴賲蹖丿賲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲賴鈥屰� 趩蹖夭蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 胤亘賯賴鈥屰� 讴丕乇诏乇 诏賮鬲貨 賴賲賴鈥屰� 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賲賵噩賵丿 丿乇 丕蹖賳 胤亘賯賴. 賴蹖趩讴爻 亘賴 禺賵丿卮 夭丨賲鬲 賳賲蹖鈥屫囏� 鬲丕 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕貙 芦丕夭 夭亘丕賳 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕禄 亘賳賵蹖爻丿貨 趩賵賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴鈥屬囏� 賴賲蹖卮賴 禺蹖賱蹖 丕鬲賵讴卮蹖丿賴鈥屫� 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丨乇賮鈥屬囏� 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐嗀� 爻乇蹖毓丕 賲卮讴賱丕鬲 賲乇丿賲 乇丕 賳卮丕賳 丿賴賳丿 賵 丕夭 賮賯乇 卮讴丕蹖鬲 讴賳賳丿. 讴爻蹖 亘賴 芦鬲賵蹖禄 賮讴乇 賵 芦鬲賵蹖禄 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 丕賴賲蹖鬲蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫囏�.
亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 賵丕賯毓丕 亘鬲賵丕賳蹖 丿乇賲賵乇丿 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕 亘賳賵蹖爻蹖貙 亘丕蹖丿 讴丕乇诏乇 亘丕卮蹖貨 倬爻 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 禺亘乇蹖 丕夭 丕馗賴丕乇丕鬲 丕丿亘蹖鈥� 賵 乇賵卮賳賮讴乇丕賳賴鈥� 賳蹖爻鬲. 毓賵囟卮 讴鬲丕亘 倬乇 丕爻鬲 丕夭 賳賯丿賴丕蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 丕爻丕爻蹖 亘賴 卮蹖賵賴鈥屰� 亘賴乇賴鈥屭┴篡屸€屫簇� 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕. 卮蹖賵賴鈥屰� 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴爻丕賱鬲鈥屫ㄘж� 賵 丕夭禺賵丿亘蹖诏丕賳賴鈥屫池ж操� 讴丕乇賲賳丿蹖. 賵 賲賴賲鈥屫必� 鬲賵氐蹖賮賽 賮讴乇 賵 匕讴乇 讴丕乇诏乇賴丕蹖 亘毓丿 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳蹖 丿賵賲賽 丌賲乇蹖讴丕貨 讴賴 亘賴 賮讴乇 丕賱讴賱賽 丕賲卮亘 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 爻蹖诏丕乇 賵 夭賳貨 賵 禺丿丕 乇丕 賴賲 卮丕讴乇賳丿 亘丕亘鬲 丌賳鈥屭嗁� 讴賮 丿爻鬲卮丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭柏ж辟嗀� (亘丕 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 讴丕賲賱丕 賴賲 賵丕賯賮鈥屫з嗀� 讴賴 賳蹖賲蹖鈥� 丕夭 丨賯賵賯 賳丕趩蹖夭卮丕賳 乇丕 讴丕乇賮乇賲丕蹖蹖 亘乇賲蹖鈥屫ж必� 讴賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 卮亘蹖賴 亘乇丿賴鈥屫ж� 丕爻鬲 賵 氐丕丨亘丕賳 卮乇讴鬲鈥屬囏� 亘丕 毓乇賯 丌賳鈥屬囏� 倬賵賱丿丕乇鬲乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堎嗀�).
賴賲賴鈥屰� 丕蹖賳 丨乇賮鈥屬囏� 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫操嗀� 賵 賴賲蹖賳 讴賴 丕賵賱卮 丌丿賲 賳賲蹖鈥屫з嗀� 趩乇丕 丕蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 禺賵亘 丕爻鬲貙 賳卮丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 讴賴 趩賯丿乇 丿乇 亘蹖丕賳 丨乇賮鈥屬囏й屫� 禺賵賳爻乇丿 賵 賴賳乇賲賳丿 賵 亘夭乇诏鈥屬呝嗀� 丕爻鬲貙 趩丕乇賱夭 亘賵讴賵賮爻讴蹖.
November 5, 2020
Every so often, maybe one in every 200 hundred books, there will be a passage that just speaks to you. It may be just a sentence or a few words or it may be something much larger. But either way, such words have the power to profoundly affect your life.
There is a before and an after. A time where you didn't read them and a time in which you have. And you can mark the progress of your life through such experiences.
And, for me, it's been a long time in which I have read words that have moved me to action so.
I will leave them here:
鈥淚f you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start."
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There is a before and an after. A time where you didn't read them and a time in which you have. And you can mark the progress of your life through such experiences.
And, for me, it's been a long time in which I have read words that have moved me to action so.
I will leave them here:
鈥淚f you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start."
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You can connect with me on social media via .
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August 20, 2019
"What kind of job you looking for?"
"Stockboy, shipping clerk, janitor."
The denizens of Bukowski's fictional world encompass the marginalized chaff of mid-20thcentury America. Barely a step ahead of abject vagrancy, Bukowski's protagonist and alter-ego Henry Chinaski is the everyman of our species comfortable asking the bare minimum of this world.
When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Chinaski's story isn't pretty, but Bukowski isn't concerned about offending a reader's middle-class American sensibilities. If the reader comes to this text with our typical baggage: work issues, money problems, familial strife - Chinaski's search for his next drink and fuck can be jarring. It's a credit to Bukowski's genius that he can make a character and not a caricature.
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
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June 12, 2008Having read two of Bukowski's books now, I've decided he's for two types of people: psuedo-intelectual masochists that want to slum a little and more genuine people that live very histrionic if arrogant and introverted lives. I can鈥檛 get over how conceited Bukowski is, how conceited his books and intentions are, or the way he treats his audience. I guess he鈥檚 sort of a modern day Oscar Wilde or Elephant Man, but reading his books gives me the impression that most people that read him think the jokes on the other readers, that the jokes not on them, that they鈥檙e 鈥渨ith it.鈥� That鈥檚 a little too much macho bullshit headgames for me. I like his honesty and he鈥檚 usually a quick read, though often repetitive and some of his more ludicrous fantasy escapades are off putting. Usually I don鈥檛 like books by writers about writing, but he usually handles it well (when does he have time to write?). Knowing some Joes like him, I wish they took their minds of the bottle and did something productive like write it all down. I鈥檒l read some more of him, but I usually like my machismo with a little more humility, like John Wayne (that鈥檚 a joke).
November 22, 2017
Great as always, you gotta love him!
September 20, 2020
This is the most torn I have been about a book ever. My thoughts are all over the place.
鈥淗ave you ever been in love?鈥�
鈥淟ove is for real people.鈥�
鈥淵ou sound real.鈥�
鈥淚 dislike real people.鈥�
鈥淵ou dislike them?鈥�
鈥淚 hate them.鈥�
I have always been fascinated by how a reader's relation with a character varies over time. It is of course is a function of narration, tense and the grammatical person. While reading a character in first person we are made privy to their most private thoughts. Yet, with Henry Chinaski, the protagonist of factotum, our familiarity with him as the book progresses just morphs into a loss of understanding. Chinaski is multidimensional and abstracted at the same time. He is one of the most authentic characters you'll ever read about, and he is also one of those blueprint characters of the archetypal drunk-indifferent-misogynist trope. It is self-contradictory, yet Bukowski seems to have found a way to bypass the dangers of paradoxical characters.
As I relaxed in bed I had this strange feeling in my head. It was as if my skull was made of cotton, or was a small balloon filled with air. I could feel space in my skull. I couldn鈥檛 comprehend it. Soon I stopped wondering about it. I was comfortable, it wasn鈥檛 agonizing. I listened to symphony music, smoking my father鈥檚 cigarettes.
Bukowski was a notorious misanthrope and a horrifying misogynist and it shows in this book. Chinaski is a racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole who actively fantasizes about rape and there were moments when I just had to keep the book away and take deep breaths because the feminist in me was screaming.
If I was any kind of man, I thought, I would rape her, set her panties on fire, force her to follow me all over the world, make tears come to her eyes with my love letters written on light red tissue paper.
There is also a sense of self-removal within the book. At no point in the book is Chinaski portrayed as a 'hero' in the traditional sense of the word. We are not supposed to like him, we are not supposed to empathize with him, Bukowski does not use flowery prose. Chinaski is a dirty cretin and that isn't something Bukowski glorifies within the book. I have to acknowledge that portraying bad characters is not the same as endorsing bad characters.
There is also a sense of removal from the world that Chinaski interacts with. He is steadily disillusioned with the workings of the world and its modernity. He knows that he is just another part of a mechanical whole that the elite control, but he isn't mindless. He does what he needs to in order to get by and then drowns himself in alcohol and perverted thoughts about women. (including a vivid fantasy of raping of a middle-eastern fourteen year old girl)
I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil. But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn鈥檛 a real man in the whole shitload. I always got to work sick but safe. Which demonstrates why Schumann was more relative than Shostakovich鈥�
I want to give this book four stars.
But, this work is semi-autobiographical and the character Chinaski is based on Bukowski himself. There is a video of Bukowski being verbally and physically abusive towards one of his girlfriends. We know the misogyny didn't just come from a creative well in the deep recesses of his mind, it wasn't just created as a character trait for Chinaski. I don't know how many of Chinaski's opinions are actually just Bukowski's, and this uncertainty will always cause me to read Bukowski begrudgingly, warily and with some feminist rage.
It was good, it was warm; I thought of blue sky and wide clean beaches, yet it was sad鈥攖here was definitely a lack of human feeling that I couldn鈥檛 understand or deal with.
鈥淗ave you ever been in love?鈥�
鈥淟ove is for real people.鈥�
鈥淵ou sound real.鈥�
鈥淚 dislike real people.鈥�
鈥淵ou dislike them?鈥�
鈥淚 hate them.鈥�
I have always been fascinated by how a reader's relation with a character varies over time. It is of course is a function of narration, tense and the grammatical person. While reading a character in first person we are made privy to their most private thoughts. Yet, with Henry Chinaski, the protagonist of factotum, our familiarity with him as the book progresses just morphs into a loss of understanding. Chinaski is multidimensional and abstracted at the same time. He is one of the most authentic characters you'll ever read about, and he is also one of those blueprint characters of the archetypal drunk-indifferent-misogynist trope. It is self-contradictory, yet Bukowski seems to have found a way to bypass the dangers of paradoxical characters.
As I relaxed in bed I had this strange feeling in my head. It was as if my skull was made of cotton, or was a small balloon filled with air. I could feel space in my skull. I couldn鈥檛 comprehend it. Soon I stopped wondering about it. I was comfortable, it wasn鈥檛 agonizing. I listened to symphony music, smoking my father鈥檚 cigarettes.
Bukowski was a notorious misanthrope and a horrifying misogynist and it shows in this book. Chinaski is a racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole who actively fantasizes about rape and there were moments when I just had to keep the book away and take deep breaths because the feminist in me was screaming.
If I was any kind of man, I thought, I would rape her, set her panties on fire, force her to follow me all over the world, make tears come to her eyes with my love letters written on light red tissue paper.
There is also a sense of self-removal within the book. At no point in the book is Chinaski portrayed as a 'hero' in the traditional sense of the word. We are not supposed to like him, we are not supposed to empathize with him, Bukowski does not use flowery prose. Chinaski is a dirty cretin and that isn't something Bukowski glorifies within the book. I have to acknowledge that portraying bad characters is not the same as endorsing bad characters.
There is also a sense of removal from the world that Chinaski interacts with. He is steadily disillusioned with the workings of the world and its modernity. He knows that he is just another part of a mechanical whole that the elite control, but he isn't mindless. He does what he needs to in order to get by and then drowns himself in alcohol and perverted thoughts about women. (including a vivid fantasy of raping of a middle-eastern fourteen year old girl)
I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil. But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn鈥檛 a real man in the whole shitload. I always got to work sick but safe. Which demonstrates why Schumann was more relative than Shostakovich鈥�
I want to give this book four stars.
But, this work is semi-autobiographical and the character Chinaski is based on Bukowski himself. There is a video of Bukowski being verbally and physically abusive towards one of his girlfriends. We know the misogyny didn't just come from a creative well in the deep recesses of his mind, it wasn't just created as a character trait for Chinaski. I don't know how many of Chinaski's opinions are actually just Bukowski's, and this uncertainty will always cause me to read Bukowski begrudgingly, warily and with some feminist rage.
It was good, it was warm; I thought of blue sky and wide clean beaches, yet it was sad鈥攖here was definitely a lack of human feeling that I couldn鈥檛 understand or deal with.
December 4, 2016
"These people are assholes, assholes! They have no intelligence! They don't know how to think! They're afraid of the mind! They're sick! They're cowards! They aren't thinking men like you and me"
A writer who struggles to make ends meet so he takes every job he can possibly find. Bukowski's writing is sharp, brutal, raw. The story at some parts I could even describe it as depressing.. (lost count of how many jobs he changed or how many females he slept with) For me Factotum is brilliant.
Having read Ask the dust it's obvious what effect Fante had on Bukowski. I found so many similarities, but I still like Factotum more.
I am so glad that I read it again because there were so many quotes I've missed when I first read it.
People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be
Factotum I guess it's not a book for everyone, but those who dare to read it will find some things to like about it.
A writer who struggles to make ends meet so he takes every job he can possibly find. Bukowski's writing is sharp, brutal, raw. The story at some parts I could even describe it as depressing.. (lost count of how many jobs he changed or how many females he slept with) For me Factotum is brilliant.
Having read Ask the dust it's obvious what effect Fante had on Bukowski. I found so many similarities, but I still like Factotum more.
I am so glad that I read it again because there were so many quotes I've missed when I first read it.
People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be
Factotum I guess it's not a book for everyone, but those who dare to read it will find some things to like about it.
July 29, 2018
Chinaski has this new job, he's a bartender now. He's not all into it anyway. He can't remember the name of the woman he had sex with last night, or was it last hour? He's not sure. The bar is pretty noisy, this singer's all, work work work work. She's sort of dusky and short, wearing black lipsticks. She's wiggling and wobbling, but he's not into her.
work work work work.
'These people are assholes' he murmurs. He said me huffi, work work work work work
'These people are assholes, they're all cowards', he murmurs again. work work work work
This singer's all twerking and stuff, Chinaski loses it. He says fuck it and walks upto the crowd, 'get out of my way' he grunts, trudging through them. He climbs the stage, people cup their chins, they go all ooh and ah. work work work work, he pushes the girl aside, grabs her mic. "You're fired" the manager screams from the crowd. Chinaski just lost his 178th job.
"Fuck work" he says, dropping the mic.
work work work work.
'These people are assholes' he murmurs. He said me huffi, work work work work work
'These people are assholes, they're all cowards', he murmurs again. work work work work
This singer's all twerking and stuff, Chinaski loses it. He says fuck it and walks upto the crowd, 'get out of my way' he grunts, trudging through them. He climbs the stage, people cup their chins, they go all ooh and ah. work work work work, he pushes the girl aside, grabs her mic. "You're fired" the manager screams from the crowd. Chinaski just lost his 178th job.
"Fuck work" he says, dropping the mic.
August 11, 2019
鈥淏aby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.鈥�
... a genius barfly of wrongdoing, and a master of procrastination.
When someone is so into an endless pit, ambition is something that definitely lacks. Henry Chinaski, like the typical anti-hero, is careless in harsh periods. When several young people were fighting at the world war II, away from their homes, our dearest anti-hero was dwelling and struggling around the country.
Set in the 1940s, during and after World War II, Bukowski presents another specific period of his life, a period of continuous unemployment, alcoholism, and experiences with low-life women.
Chinaski roams around LA streets and the US working on temporary jobs. Meanwhile, he tries to conciliate his writing passion, but with no success. The Protagonist tries hard in having his works published, but, is continually rejected by publishers.
During this time period, Bukowski's anti-hero has a close relationship with bar-fly Jan, another low-life with no ambition in life. Laura, a gold-digging hustler, is just another woman that completes Chinaski's mischief world.
The anti-hero presents a period of eternal unemployment, alcoholism, and struggling at extending his writing abilities. Unlike the first novel, the protagonist is much more careless professionally, and, lacks some experience with women. It's in this novel where Chinaski depicts his first experiences with horse racings and his real struggling with writing.
The raw and brutal writing couldn't miss. It's through his literary language that Bukowski delivers his life experiences in an efficient way.
Overall, the author's story is not beautiful. It's a hymn against the tedious daily life, a kind of life that Bukowski strongly rejects.
"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
... a genius barfly of wrongdoing, and a master of procrastination.
When someone is so into an endless pit, ambition is something that definitely lacks. Henry Chinaski, like the typical anti-hero, is careless in harsh periods. When several young people were fighting at the world war II, away from their homes, our dearest anti-hero was dwelling and struggling around the country.
Set in the 1940s, during and after World War II, Bukowski presents another specific period of his life, a period of continuous unemployment, alcoholism, and experiences with low-life women.
Chinaski roams around LA streets and the US working on temporary jobs. Meanwhile, he tries to conciliate his writing passion, but with no success. The Protagonist tries hard in having his works published, but, is continually rejected by publishers.
During this time period, Bukowski's anti-hero has a close relationship with bar-fly Jan, another low-life with no ambition in life. Laura, a gold-digging hustler, is just another woman that completes Chinaski's mischief world.
The anti-hero presents a period of eternal unemployment, alcoholism, and struggling at extending his writing abilities. Unlike the first novel, the protagonist is much more careless professionally, and, lacks some experience with women. It's in this novel where Chinaski depicts his first experiences with horse racings and his real struggling with writing.
The raw and brutal writing couldn't miss. It's through his literary language that Bukowski delivers his life experiences in an efficient way.
Overall, the author's story is not beautiful. It's a hymn against the tedious daily life, a kind of life that Bukowski strongly rejects.
"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
August 15, 2018
螒魏慰渭伪 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰 蟿慰蠀 螠蟺慰蠀魏慰蠁蟽魏喂 魏伪喂 伪魏蠈渭伪 苇谓伪 魏伪胃伪蟻蠈 5. 螣 位蠈纬慰蟼;
螒蟺蔚蠂胃维谓慰渭伪喂 蟺位萎蟻蠅蟼 蟿畏谓 蟽蠀谓萎胃蠅蟼 蠁蔚喂蟽渭蟺慰蠀魏喂魏畏 蟿维蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 伪谓伪纬蠅纬萎蟼 蔚谓蠈蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 蟽蔚 蔚蟺委蟺蔚未伪 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏萎蟼 胃蔚蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蠈渭伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰 尾畏尉喂渭慰 蟿慰蠀 伪谓蟿畏蠂蔚委 蠅蟼 渭蔚位蠅未委伪. 螕谓蠋蟻喂蟽伪 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 蟿慰蠀 螠蟺慰蠀魏慰蠁蟽魏喂 蠅蟼 蔚蟻纬伪味蠈渭蔚谓慰蟼 蟽蟿慰谓 蠂蠋蟻慰 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位喂慰蠀 蟺蟻喂谓 伪蟺慰 蟺蔚蟻委蟺慰蠀 渭喂伪 蔚尉伪蔚蟿委伪 魏伪喂 慰渭慰位慰纬蠋 蟺蠅蟼 蟿蠅蟻伪 蟽蟿伪 30, 渭蟺慰蟻蠋 谓伪 魏伪蟿伪位维尾蠅 蟿畏谓 胃蔚慰蟺慰委畏蟽萎 蟿慰蠀. 螌蠂喂 谓伪 蟿畏谓 未蔚蠂蟿蠋, 伪位位维 谓伪 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿伪位维尾蠅. 螠苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 蟿慰蠀 蟺伪蟻伪渭苇谓蔚喂 伪谓伪位位慰委蠅蟿慰蟼 慰 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂胃蠅蟻喂伪魏慰蠉 魏伪喂 纬蔚渭维蟿慰蠀 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委蔚蟼 蟿蠉蟺慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蠈位畏 蟿畏谓 渭喂味苇蟻喂伪 蟿慰蠀, 魏伪蟿伪蠁苇蟻谓蔚喂 魏伪喂 未喂伪蟿畏蟻蔚委 苇谓伪谓 魏维蟺慰喂慰 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂蟽渭蠈 伪位位维 魏伪喂 渭喂伪 渭慰蟻蠁萎 伪纬维蟺畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟼 魏维胃蔚 蟿喂 蠈渭慰蟻蠁慰. 韦慰 委未喂慰 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 蟽蠀渭尾伪委谓蔚喂 魏伪喂 蔚未蠋.
惟蟼 胃伪蠀渭伪蟽蟿萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 苇蟻纬慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 (渭伪味委 渭蔚 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 蟿慰蠀 危魏伪渭蟺伪蟻未蠅谓畏) 未畏位蠋谓蠅 蟽蠁蠈未蟻伪 渭畏 伪谓蟿喂魏蔚喂渭蔚谓喂魏蠈蟼. 螒蠀蟿维.
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惟蟼 胃伪蠀渭伪蟽蟿萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 苇蟻纬慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 (渭伪味委 渭蔚 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 蟿慰蠀 危魏伪渭蟺伪蟻未蠅谓畏) 未畏位蠋谓蠅 蟽蠁蠈未蟻伪 渭畏 伪谓蟿喂魏蔚喂渭蔚谓喂魏蠈蟼. 螒蠀蟿维.
April 14, 2020
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April 23, 2021
Practicing Schopenhauer
or, Between Pain and Boredom
Themes:
Work in the United States during WW2
Unemployment
Dead-end jobs
Low-pay jobs
The failure of the education system in the United States in the 20th century
My opinion on the autofiction:
As amusing as some of the dialogues and scenes turn out to be (and some really are - to my taste at least) the shine eventually wears off because of the tedium oozing from the whole book. It mostly reads like a generic series of bad situations to worse situations, involving disastrous job interviews, jobs got and lost, food theft, sex with Jan, and back to a world of quiet misery, leaving no place whatsoever to any significant change in the... story(?). The interest mainly lies in the wisecracks and absurd situations, of which there is a wealth, fortunately :)
Yes, this is from the man who wrote , not especially famous for the variety of his prose, but to me, Factotum is as formulaic as it gets.
Charles Bukowski (Tour in Skid Row), 1970 鈥� Photograph by Sam Cherry
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Soundtrack:
or, Between Pain and Boredom
Themes:
Work in the United States during WW2
Unemployment
Dead-end jobs
Low-pay jobs
The failure of the education system in the United States in the 20th century
My opinion on the autofiction:
As amusing as some of the dialogues and scenes turn out to be (and some really are - to my taste at least) the shine eventually wears off because of the tedium oozing from the whole book. It mostly reads like a generic series of bad situations to worse situations, involving disastrous job interviews, jobs got and lost, food theft, sex with Jan, and back to a world of quiet misery, leaving no place whatsoever to any significant change in the... story(?). The interest mainly lies in the wisecracks and absurd situations, of which there is a wealth, fortunately :)
Yes, this is from the man who wrote , not especially famous for the variety of his prose, but to me, Factotum is as formulaic as it gets.
Charles Bukowski (Tour in Skid Row), 1970 鈥� Photograph by Sam Cherry
Other books in the same niche:
Soundtrack:
July 31, 2024
Factotum
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was an underground writer of poems stories, and novels who has exerted a fascination over me for many years. He is best known for his portrayals of the shabby, dingy side of Los Angeles. His reputation has grown subsequently to his death. Many of his works originally were published by a small publishing house, Black Sparrow Press which specialized in unusual writers, A few years ago, Black Sparrow was purchased by HarperCollins which continues to maintain Bukowski's works in print and to publish posthumous works.
This reprint of "Factotum" was released by HarperCollins this month to capitalize on the movie version of Factotum. I read it eagerly in anticipation of seeing the movie, which premiered at independent film festivals before its commercial release. Earlier Bukowski movies include "Barfly" (1987) and the documentary "Bukowski: Born into This" (2004).
Factotum (1975)is Bukowski's second novel, and its main character is Bukowski's alter ego, named Henry Chinaski. The word 'factotum" means "A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities" or "a general servant". These definitions, particularly the second, capture much of the spirit of the novel. Chinaski is a young man, down and out, who has been rejected for the draft during WW II. In short, fast-moving chapters, the novel chronicles Chinaski's search for work crossing back and forth throughout the United States.
The novel is gritty, raw and tough. Chinaski is hardly a hero as he loses one dead-end job after another and throws away the few possible opportunities that come his way. Chinaski is solitary and anti-social. He drinks heavily and plays the horses. He takes up with women and generally drops them as quickly as he meets them. He leads the life of a drifter, loner, and outsider.
Without prelude or introduction, the book opens as Chinaski arrives "in New Orleans in the rain at 5"o'clock in the morning" and is quickly accosted by "a high yellow sitting on the porch steps swinging her legs". He goes through a series of jobs and shabby hotels before embarking on a journey that takes him to Texas, Los Angeles, his hometown, New York City, Philadelphia, St Louis and, finally back to Los Angeles. At the end, we see Chinaski, frustrated and angry fantasizing over a dancer in a burlesque house.
Chinaski loses a litany of jobs, including working as a janitor, window washer, shipping clerk, baker's helper, assistant in a dog buscuit factory, and similar ventures. He either quits, or, more often, is fired for absenteeism, attitude, fighting, and drinking. He has affairs with a variety of women, the most prominent of whom in this book is Jan, with whom he has an on again off again relationship punctuated by alcohol, horseracing, fighting, and Jan's affairs with other men.
Chinaski is an aspiring writer, when he is not drinking or otherwise occupied, and the book includes a scene in which a short story is accepted for publication. Writing and reflection are used, as is so often the case, as a way to understand and distance oneself from a shabby, difficult life. There are many lively, funny scenes in Factotum. Chinaski does not ask for sympathy and gives none. The story is toughly and unapologetically told. The book gives the impression of an individual deeply down on himself and on others who sees himself as fighting and carrying on simply to live his life for what it is.
Bukowski is a vulgar, raw author who will not appeal to everyone. But I continue to be taken with him and with Factotum. The book exerts a pull that I can't shake off.
Robin Friedman
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was an underground writer of poems stories, and novels who has exerted a fascination over me for many years. He is best known for his portrayals of the shabby, dingy side of Los Angeles. His reputation has grown subsequently to his death. Many of his works originally were published by a small publishing house, Black Sparrow Press which specialized in unusual writers, A few years ago, Black Sparrow was purchased by HarperCollins which continues to maintain Bukowski's works in print and to publish posthumous works.
This reprint of "Factotum" was released by HarperCollins this month to capitalize on the movie version of Factotum. I read it eagerly in anticipation of seeing the movie, which premiered at independent film festivals before its commercial release. Earlier Bukowski movies include "Barfly" (1987) and the documentary "Bukowski: Born into This" (2004).
Factotum (1975)is Bukowski's second novel, and its main character is Bukowski's alter ego, named Henry Chinaski. The word 'factotum" means "A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities" or "a general servant". These definitions, particularly the second, capture much of the spirit of the novel. Chinaski is a young man, down and out, who has been rejected for the draft during WW II. In short, fast-moving chapters, the novel chronicles Chinaski's search for work crossing back and forth throughout the United States.
The novel is gritty, raw and tough. Chinaski is hardly a hero as he loses one dead-end job after another and throws away the few possible opportunities that come his way. Chinaski is solitary and anti-social. He drinks heavily and plays the horses. He takes up with women and generally drops them as quickly as he meets them. He leads the life of a drifter, loner, and outsider.
Without prelude or introduction, the book opens as Chinaski arrives "in New Orleans in the rain at 5"o'clock in the morning" and is quickly accosted by "a high yellow sitting on the porch steps swinging her legs". He goes through a series of jobs and shabby hotels before embarking on a journey that takes him to Texas, Los Angeles, his hometown, New York City, Philadelphia, St Louis and, finally back to Los Angeles. At the end, we see Chinaski, frustrated and angry fantasizing over a dancer in a burlesque house.
Chinaski loses a litany of jobs, including working as a janitor, window washer, shipping clerk, baker's helper, assistant in a dog buscuit factory, and similar ventures. He either quits, or, more often, is fired for absenteeism, attitude, fighting, and drinking. He has affairs with a variety of women, the most prominent of whom in this book is Jan, with whom he has an on again off again relationship punctuated by alcohol, horseracing, fighting, and Jan's affairs with other men.
Chinaski is an aspiring writer, when he is not drinking or otherwise occupied, and the book includes a scene in which a short story is accepted for publication. Writing and reflection are used, as is so often the case, as a way to understand and distance oneself from a shabby, difficult life. There are many lively, funny scenes in Factotum. Chinaski does not ask for sympathy and gives none. The story is toughly and unapologetically told. The book gives the impression of an individual deeply down on himself and on others who sees himself as fighting and carrying on simply to live his life for what it is.
Bukowski is a vulgar, raw author who will not appeal to everyone. But I continue to be taken with him and with Factotum. The book exerts a pull that I can't shake off.
Robin Friedman
June 3, 2022
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禺賵丿賲丕賳蹖賲貙 丌禺賴 趩賴 讴蹖賮蹖 丿丕乇丿 讴賴 丌丿賲 卮卮 賵 賳蹖賲賽 氐亘丨 亘丕 夭賳诏賽 爻丕毓鬲賽 卮賲丕胤賴 丿丕乇貙 亘蹖丿丕乇 卮賵丿貙 丕夭 鬲禺鬲 亘倬乇丿 亘蹖乇賵賳貙 賱亘丕爻 亘倬賵卮丿貙 亘賴 夭賵乇 蹖讴 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賵賮鬲 讴賳丿貙 亘卮丕卮丿貙 亘乇蹖賳丿貙 賲爻賵丕讴 亘夭賳丿貙 卮丕賳賴 丕蹖 亘讴卮丿 亘賴 賲賵賴丕卮 賵 鬲賵 鬲乇丕賮蹖讴賽 丕毓氐丕亘 禺賵乇丿 讴賳賽 氐亘丨貙 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 亘乇爻丕賳丿 亘賴 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丕氐賵賱丕賸 讴丕乇卮 丕蹖賳 亘丕卮丿 讴賴 毓乇賯 亘乇蹖夭丿 賵 讴賱蹖 倬賵賱 丿乇爻鬲 讴賳丿 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 亘丕亘丕蹖賽 丿蹖诏乇.. 亘毓丿 賴賲 丕夭 丕蹖賳讴賴 賴賲趩蹖賳 賮乇氐鬲蹖 丿乇 丕禺鬲蹖丕乇卮 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貙 讴賲丕賱賽 鬲卮讴乇丕鬲賽 禺賵丿 乇丕 丕亘乇丕夭 讴賳丿!!!責
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丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵 丿乇 噩賴鬲賽 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 讴丕賮蹖 賵 賲賮蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 亘丕卮賴
芦倬蹖乇賵夭 亘丕卮蹖丿 賵 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖禄
賳讴鬲踿 噩丕賱亘 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 噩賵丕賳丕賳賽 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖 丿乇 亘賴 丿乇 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱賽 讴丕乇 賴爻鬲賳丿貙 賵賱蹖 丿乇 丌賲乇蹖讴丕貙 趩蹖賳丕爻讴蹖 亘賴 乇丕丨鬲蹖 卮睾賱 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖讴賳丿 賵 丿賱卮 亘丕 賴蹖趩 卮睾賱蹖 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 賮賯胤 亘賴 賮讴乇賽 賵賱诏乇丿蹖貙 夭賳 亘丕乇诏蹖 賵 卮乇丕亘 禺賵丕乇蹖爻鬲
丿乇 夭蹖乇 亘賴 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖鬲丕賳 賲蹖賳賵蹖爻賲
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丨丕賱丕 丿蹖诏乇 诏賵卮蹖 丿爻鬲賲 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿 讴賴 毓購卮丕賯賽 亘夭乇诏貙 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲乇丿賴丕蹖蹖 亘賵丿賴 丕賳丿 讴賴 丿賳蹖丕 亘賴 鬲禺賲卮丕賳 賴賲 賳亘賵丿賴.. 賲賳 賵賯鬲蹖 亘蹖 禺丕賳賲丕賳 亘賵丿賲貙 亘賴鬲乇 賲蹖诏丕蹖蹖丿賲貙 鬲丕 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 賴乇 乇賵夭 氐亘丨 亘丕蹖爻鬲蹖 賲蹖乇賮鬲賲 爻乇賽 讴丕乇
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禺賵丿賲丕賳蹖賲貙 丌禺賴 趩賴 讴蹖賮蹖 丿丕乇丿 讴賴 丌丿賲 卮卮 賵 賳蹖賲賽 氐亘丨 亘丕 夭賳诏賽 爻丕毓鬲賽 卮賲丕胤賴 丿丕乇貙 亘蹖丿丕乇 卮賵丿貙 丕夭 鬲禺鬲 亘倬乇丿 亘蹖乇賵賳貙 賱亘丕爻 亘倬賵卮丿貙 亘賴 夭賵乇 蹖讴 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賵賮鬲 讴賳丿貙 亘卮丕卮丿貙 亘乇蹖賳丿貙 賲爻賵丕讴 亘夭賳丿貙 卮丕賳賴 丕蹖 亘讴卮丿 亘賴 賲賵賴丕卮 賵 鬲賵 鬲乇丕賮蹖讴賽 丕毓氐丕亘 禺賵乇丿 讴賳賽 氐亘丨貙 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 亘乇爻丕賳丿 亘賴 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丕氐賵賱丕賸 讴丕乇卮 丕蹖賳 亘丕卮丿 讴賴 毓乇賯 亘乇蹖夭丿 賵 讴賱蹖 倬賵賱 丿乇爻鬲 讴賳丿 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 亘丕亘丕蹖賽 丿蹖诏乇.. 亘毓丿 賴賲 丕夭 丕蹖賳讴賴 賴賲趩蹖賳 賮乇氐鬲蹖 丿乇 丕禺鬲蹖丕乇卮 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貙 讴賲丕賱賽 鬲卮讴乇丕鬲賽 禺賵丿 乇丕 丕亘乇丕夭 讴賳丿!!!責
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丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵 丿乇 噩賴鬲賽 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 讴丕賮蹖 賵 賲賮蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 亘丕卮賴
芦倬蹖乇賵夭 亘丕卮蹖丿 賵 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖禄
July 19, 2007
Bukowski holds a strange attraction for me. I suppose reading his novels and short stories is something like staring at a car crash or returning to the scene of the crime: I just can't help it. There is a primitive, visceral draw. I have yet to read a Bukowski novel that I consider great. Factotum does come close, but its moments of brilliance are weighed down by excessive machismo and male posturing. Still, I can't say I regret reading it, and I know I will read Bukowski again.
January 24, 2019
亘丕 鬲卮讴乇 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲 毓夭蹖夭 Kamrun亘禺丕胤乇 賮丕蹖賱 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 蹖 毓丕賱蹖.
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