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Factotum
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“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.�
... 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
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“It was true that I didn’t 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?”
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Reading Progress
March 21, 2019
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Started Reading
March 21, 2019
– Shelved
March 26, 2019
– Shelved as:
fiction
March 26, 2019
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Finished Reading
May 21, 2019
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classics
May 21, 2019
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novels
May 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
literature
