Factotum

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 i Leggi tutto

Factotum – an employee who does all kinds of work. Henry Chinaski – an alter ego of Charles Bukowski – was a special kind of factotum – he was an employee who didn’t want to do any kind of work. “I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.”“Oh, a writer, eh?”“Yes.”“Are you sure?”“No, I’m not.”“W Leggi tutto

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’d have to call a cab, Leggi tutto

fac·to·tum/fakˈtōdəm/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 fo Leggi tutto

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’ve never read Bukowski before, but I’ve seen Barfly and Factotum on the screen. I’ve Leggi tutto

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 “You Don’t Know What Love Is”: https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/you... A “factotum” describes someone who does a range of "low-level" (meanin Leggi tutto

هزارپیشه‌ی نشر نگاه و قاصدک صبا را نخرید امید تنها چیزی است که آدمیزاد لازم دارد. امید که نباشد، آدم دلسرد می‌شود. یاد دوره‌ای افتادم که نیوارلئان بودم و چند هفته‌ی مدام، با روزی دو تا شکلات پنج سنتی سرمی‌کردم تا بتوانم با خیال راحت بنشینم به نوشتن. اما متاسفانه، گرسنگی کشیدن باعث اعتلای هنر نمی‌شود؛ Leggi tutto