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Factotum ist ein US-amerikanisch-norwegisches Filmdrama von Bent Hamer aus dem Jahr Bent Hamer und Jim Stark schrieben das Drehbuch anhand des gleichnamigen Romans von Charles Bukowski. Factotum steht für: Factotum (Roman), Roman von Charles Bukowski (); Factotum (Film), US-amerikanisch-norwegischer Film von Bent Hamer (). sono il factotum della città. Figaro hier, Figaro da, Figaro oben, Figaro unten, Bereit, äußerst bereit, ich bin wie der Blitz. Sorgen Sie mit unseren nachhaltigen Werbemitteln zuverlässig für eine Steigerung des Bekanntheitsgrads Ihres Unternehmens und bauen. Factotum. Worttrennung: Fak·to·tum, Plural 1: Fak·to·tums, Plural 2: Fak·. grafik-designer.eu - Kaufen Sie Factotum günstig ein. Qualifizierte Bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert. Sie finden Rezensionen und Details zu einer vielseitigen. Factotum | Bukowski, Charles | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.

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If you remember that Bent Hamer made the little film about a Forties Scandinavian household efficiency program called Kitchen Stories, you'll be partially prepared for the dry, sardonic style of this follow-up feature, the Charles Bukowski-based epic of seedy living Factotum, in which Matt Dillon gives a stylized, restrained performance as the authorial stand-in, Hank Chinaski, and Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei seamlessly slide into the roles of Hank's alcoholic girlfriends Jan and Laura.

Bulked up with a zombie stare, stifled voice and shambling walk, Dillon is very good, if, due partly to script limitations, not as compelling as Mickey Rourke in Barbet Schroeder's Barfly.

Even overweight and horribly dressed Dillon is still far too handsome to resemble the pockmarked and ugly real-life Bokowski, but you can't fault good looks in a leading man, and the film is dominated by Dillon's character, who's in every scene, his narrative voice brought in to move the episodic plot along and provide Bukowski's insistent commentary on life as he sees it.

Those episodes are all we get, and apart from brief writing and longer romantic interludes, they mainly concern a long round of short-lived jobs -- sorting pickles in a pickle factory, boxing brake shoes, dusting statues, driving a cab a hard-on's no danger to the driver, the instructor says, but sneezing is , assembling bike parts, and so on, from which Hank is unfailingly soon fired for drunkenness or lateness, insubordination or other misdemeanors -- whereupon he goes back to writing, drinking, and sex -- which latter, Jan tells him, is no good when he gets successful as he does for a while playing the horses.

There's none of the post office sorting job Bukowski did for a long time. For Bukowski and his alter ego being a seedy loser is a thing carried off with such chutzpah that it's sexy -- and drinking and sex are equally close ways to feed the libido.

Bokowski appeals to the young, the easily impressed, the hard drinking, and those who like the pithy sayings and ignore the arrested development.

For those of bourgeois mentality and upbringing there's a certain imperishably tonic thrill in watching a man who's been down so long it looks like up; who can tell the employer who's just fired him to give him his severance check immediately so he can hurry up and get drunk; for whom no flophouse or flat is too seedy, no bibulous girlfriend a worse drunk than he.

How liberating it might be not to care about losing everything, knowing that since paper and pen are nearly free you'll never stop writing: or if you lose heart for a minute or two, a dip into the works of some other writer will encourage you in the belief that you can do better.

Bokowski was a tough one. Matt Dillon is Irish enough to have seen something of the hard drinking life himself. One senses that he knows whereof he speaks and can convey the alcoholic lifestyle without irony or melodrama.

There's nothing quite like Lili Taylor coming out in her underwear to fix Hank a meal. His request is for another round of pancakes.

In a smaller but still choice role Marisa Tomei is well disguised as another drunken lady Hank goes home with, finding that she lives with a flaky French millionaire called Pierre Didier Flamand with a little yacht and dreams of composing an opera.

Hank's been taken off so many two bit jobs being fired has no sting left for him. Bukowski's persona is impenetrable and he's a simple survivor: he's almost utterly resistant to the forces of change his wayward lifestyle would activate in lesser beings and hence, unlike the downward spiraling drunk so movingly played by Nick Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, Bukowski's Hank in Dillon's performance cannot build toward pathos or true depth.

As suggested, this film doesn't develop its sequences and relationships as thoroughly as Barfly, for which Bukowski himself wrote the screenplay, giving it a continuity and focus Factotum's more cobbled-together script doesn't quite muster.

There's something condescending and cultish in the European cultivation of the Bukowski myth in which this is another short chapter.

Factotum is an occasionally amusing, at moments laugh-out-loud kind of movie that's well served by all the principals and by director Hamer's dry wit and restraint, but after the desultory and boring stretches have eventually started to pile up you may begin to say: So what?

Not to fault the editing, but mightn't a native's keener ear for the rhythms of the dialogue have kept the flow going better?

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Rate This. This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.

Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling. Director: Bent Hamer.

Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. View 1 comment. Dec 03, Michael Jandrok rated it really liked it. Definition of factotum.

First off, I need to tell you that I should know better than to read Bukowski around the holidays. I have to be in a certain mood, a certain frame of mind, to read Bukowski.

Conversely, of course, that must m Definition of factotum. I own a nice copy bought at Half-Price Books about 6 months or so ago.

But I may have been wrong in my assumption that it was the right moment to absorb this particular title. Add that to the fact that I had already picked out a nice lineup of reading material to cover the next month or so and it makes me wonder why I decided to plow through this somewhat depressing and repetitive novel.

Chinaski has been declared as 4-F for military service, and thus spends his time during WWII stateside picking up odd jobs and odd women and occasionally picking the right horses.

We find Chinaski at the beginnings of his literary career here, as he sells his first short story to a magazine and gets to call himself a writer for the very first time.

Chinaski starts job-hopping in L. Moving out on his own, he drifts from job to job and room to room until he hooks up with a female version of himself named Jan.

Jan is older than Chinaski, but just as drunk and directionless, and the two make for a perfect pair as they spend each day in haze of cheap booze and even cheaper sex.

Then Chinaski blacks out and dreams or is it really a dream? He abruptly leaves L. Eventually he meanders back to Los Angeles, though his relationship with Jan is now strained to the point of breaking.

I put the book back on the shelf and forgot about it for a few days until I realized that I wanted to write a review of it. Upon reflection, I realized that it was missing a lot of the deft commentary on the human condition that is usually a hallmark of the Bukowski experience.

There was very little money and we were drinking wine. Port and muscatel. We had the kitchen floor lined with gallon jugs of wine, six or seven of them, and in front of them were four or five fifths, and in front of the fifths were lined up three or four pints.

No burial, no tears, no illusions, no heaven or hell. People will be sitting around and they'll say, 'What happened to George?

He said he was going out for a pack of cigarettes. Jul 20, BlackOxford rated it it was ok Shelves: american. 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. 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.

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. His aimless wandering is his purpose.

The jobs in each are different but their commonality is that no one else will do them. 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.

You have to choose your profession. But the booze always wins, over and over again. The repetition is convincing but tedious.

Going nowhere fast is a tough story to tell. View all 23 comments. Shelves: own , fiction , made-for-the-screen , golden-years , favorites , hey-shorty , wheres-the-bedroom , wheres-the-bar , writing-about-writers , city-rat.

This is the first Bukowski novel I read - I chose it because the movie version was coming out, and I wanted to read the book first.

As a first Bukowski novel, it's a wise choice, because it's a quick read. I blew through it in days. It's a very conflicting book, because in some regards it's depressing to see how he lived, what his relationships were like, but on other levels, it's inspiring, because he was so dirt poor and bounced around from job to job, but was able to support himself and hi This is the first Bukowski novel I read - I chose it because the movie version was coming out, and I wanted to read the book first.

It's a very conflicting book, because in some regards it's depressing to see how he lived, what his relationships were like, but on other levels, it's inspiring, because he was so dirt poor and bounced around from job to job, but was able to support himself and his career, even if the quality of life was so low.

He did what he had to do to make it work. My one qualm with this book is that I know a lot of people who read this and think they get the basic gist of Bukowski, when that is so very much not the case.

Bukowski had a very tumultuous home life which he supposedly addresses in Ham on Rye , which I have yet to read , especially with his father, which is accountable for a lot of the reasons why he is who he is.

There's only one scene in Factotum that illustrates his father's treatment of him and his mothers' unwillingness to restrain his father - and it's one of the most memorable of the book.

This is also low on the social commentary factor which, believe it or not, Bukowski actually does plenty of elsewhere - it's just that it's generally over-shadowed by all the raunchier aspects of his work.

Absolutely pick this up, but don't let this be the only thing of his that you read. View all 8 comments.

Nov 19, Henry Martin rated it it was amazing Shelves: permanent-collection. This is Factotum. Charles Bukowski brings his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, back to life in this phenomenal work and with it, he puts himself and society on trial.

A lot, perhaps too much, has been said about Bukowski and his work. While I truly enjoy his short stories the most, Factotum, along with post Office, are among my favorite books written by American authors.

Bukowski's writing is simple and straight-to-the-point, and Factotum is no exception. Filled with short, sometimes paragraph-like chapters, the writing flows smoothly, gently sneaking under your skin, and before you know it you start to care and you start to see the world through Chinaski's eyes.

A world, which, for the most part, has not improved over the past sixty years. Perhaps his truths are universal.

One thing hit me in particular: Chinaski goes to the American Cancer Society, only to be given an appointment three weeks later.

He mentions that all his life he has been told to catch cancer early, but when it comes to it, he is told to wait three weeks.

Last year I went through pretty much the same thing, only to have to wait for an appointment for over four months.

Fortunately, it was not cancer, but if it was Anyway, back to Factotum. Chinaski, being a "4-F" as he states, was exempt from the draft which left him behind, free to look for a job and settle down.

Only the restless soul is incapable of settling down. A struggling writer, writing several short stories by hand each week, which shows great inspiration and capability he does not have much else to live for.

Submerged in booze, smoking, and having sex, he kills time between odd jobs, while waiting to be discovered. However, this is not the point of the story.

The story itself is the loose journal of a man struggling with himself and the changes our society was undergoing at that time. Chinaski was not a man who knew what he wanted.

As long as his basic needs were met, Booze, cigarettes, sex, and the occasional meal he was happy -- relatively happy, or rather unconcerned with the world.

He mentions the war in the terms of there being less people applying for the jobs, yet it does not make the jobs easier to get.

He chooses jobs which require minimum effort, be it physical when possible or mental always , because he cannot be bothered.

Considering his arrest record, he knows he cannot get a "good" job, for they require a background check, so he settles for the other jobs -- shipping clerk, janitor, warehouseman, factotum He drinks during the day, he writes at night, he fights at bars, and he drinks more.

When he has money, he buys a good whiskey; when he doesn't, he settles for a rotgut wine. He treats women the same way he treats his bottle -- as long as he can get it, it's good.

His women, with the exception of a few random "quickies", are not much different than him, only less inspired. Chinaski lives this way because he chooses to, because he cannot be bothered.

And why should he. How many of us wasted years and perhaps decades chasing after something that seemed important to us, yet it really wasn't?

How many of us do something we hate or dislike only for the sake of "appearances"? We are all guilty of that. As a society, we look down on the bum standing at a corner, holding a fifth wrapped in a paper bag; we look down on the men who move from place to place, unable to hold jobs, unable to start a family, the men who do inferior work.

How many of us ever stopped to think why Chinaski had two years of college, yet he worked as a janitor. It was not from laziness, it was a conscious choice.

He did not have faith in the system, he did not want to be part of the system; he simply wanted means of making some money to fulfill his needs.

Factotum is a portrait of a broken society, of an era of broken dreams. Factotum is not the "great American novel", but it is a novel full of timeless truth, full of humanity.

Chinaski may be dirty and drunk, but he does what he wants, he pursues his dream. He is not trying to change the world, and he does not want the world to change him.

Where Kerouac goes on and on for pages about "beauty", Bukowski delivers a short sentence, but always hitting the nail straight on its head, keeping it simple, raw and gritty -- sometimes poetic, sometimes disgusting -- but that is what life is after all.

Nov 20, Scott rated it really liked it. Working sucks. So does changing jobs all the time. Have a drink. The humor interspersed with the transience and violence is hilarious.

This is pretty typical Bukowski. As with most of what he wrote its supposed to be loosely based on his real life experiences.

If you can get beyond his annoying habit of trying to convince you of how tough he is and exagerrating if not out and out lying about the frequency of his sexual encounters and the quality of the women involved then its a good quick read for a laugh.

The best stuff in this is his humorous accounts of working various disposable menial jobs. Bukowski is very funny, a fact w This is pretty typical Bukowski.

Bukowski is very funny, a fact which seems to get lost in the shuffle by the lame hipsters who comprise the bulk of the fans of his work.

Jun 12, Printable Tire added it Shelves: grunge-slacker-twentysomething. Having 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.

Knowing some Joes like him, I wish they took their minds of the bottle and did something productive like write it all down.

Sep 20, Prerna rated it liked it. This is the most torn I have been about a book ever. My thoughts are all over the place. 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 Chin This is the most torn I have been about a book ever.

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. Soon I stopped wondering about it. 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.

Which demonstrates why Schumann was more relative than Shostakovich… 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.

Jun 25, Cody rated it liked it. 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.

Jan 22, Michael Oliver rated it did not like it Recommends it for: mine enemies. What a piece of shit. Chuck Buck prides himself as a worthless human filled with anger and bitterness towards all his fellow men.

He has no respect for women or anyone else for that matter, and drinks himself into a state of absolute despair just so he can write about his depressive life in order to persuade the rest of the public to feel better about themselves I assume.

A foul excuse for contemporary literature- it's more like contemptuous literature. I'm embarrassed his writing What a piece of shit.

I'm embarrassed his writing is considered "hip". It just made me sad. Granted, this was the first Bukowski novel I've read. It should be a while before I pick up another one.

Anyone out there disagree? View all 16 comments. There's a bluebird in my heart That wants to get out But i'm too tough to him Jun 21, Stinky Girl rated it liked it.

Full review later. Shelves: modern-classic , s , classics-club , contemporary , hipster-book , dirty-realism. A perpetually unemployed alcoholic.

Henry Chinaski drifts through the seedy city streets of lower-class LA in search of a job. Factotum takes place in and follows the life of Chinaski in his search for a job that will not separate him from his writing.

He is consistently rejected by the only publishing house he respects but he is driven by the knowledge that he could do better than the authors they publish.

Bukowski is known for the literary movement Dirty Realism; a movement that often focuses on transgressive fiction in a very raw and interesting way.

The willingness to try and portray forbidden behaviours and shock readers is what makes Factotum such a great read. Henry Chinaski is Charles Bukowski alter ego so you suspect this is a semi-autobiographical novel that tries to capture not only his uncompromising love for writing but the isolation and loneliness he must feel.

The emotional honesty that pours out in this book is both heart-breakingly beautiful but also very refreshing. I really look forward to reading it, as I was recommended both books by a reliable source.

Henry Chinaski is a great character; his low-life urbanity and alcoholism makes him a great guide into the seedy underbelly.

View all 15 comments. Mar 27, Jonny Gibbings rated it did not like it. You know, don't know what the fuss is about.

Maybe it is me, maybe it was all the hype, but, I thought it Factotum was crap. For the record, I am no intellectual, I am not of the thinking it has to be hard to read to be good, but, for me, Factotum read like it was written by a 15 year old trying to imagine what a hard drinking womaniser would be like.

There was no depth, flimsy characters that the author paints a vague suggestion of, bouncing form job to job - each is brief but lacking.

The tale You know, don't know what the fuss is about. The tale is of a guy 'Chinaski' who rolls from bar to bar.

I guess how he seems to be able to walk into any bar, in any state in America and it is full of easy women who, for a drink will just give it away, just pissed me off.

It was weak, lazy writing. This is why I don't get the love for this author. When you read, for example Palahniuk's description and detail of Marla Singer in Fight Club, even about Chloe, who was about to die, he puts you there with a richness and prose that complements the dark text.

In contrast, Bukowski, for me, reads like a guy telling a joke. Most of the text 'fluff' to get to a punchline that never actually happens. Oh, and there isn't much plot, not that I have a problem with that usually.

If you want an example of this style of writing and the beauty of plotless - Craig Wallwork delivers a 'benchmark' with The Sound of Loneliness.

The book reads like a synopsis I wanted to love Bukowski. But it's just too weak for me. Feb 24, Steven-John Tait rated it liked it.

This is the third book of Bukowski's that I've read. I liked it. Of the three, Post Office is my clear favourite. Although it's a bit repetitive, Factotum is the work of a true working class, impoverished, writer.

It is an unpolished and harsh work that could loosely compare to Orwell's Down and Out and London's People of the Abyss, but Factotum has the added bite of being written by someone who lived that life, instead of by those who only visited it.

It won't be the last book of Bukowski's I read. Readers also enjoyed. About Charles Bukowski. Charles Bukowski. 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. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 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 ; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp , Screams from the Balcony , and The Last Night of the Earth Poems He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, Books by Charles Bukowski.

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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.

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… one of the most uncompromising writers.

Aug 09, David Schaafsma rated it really liked it Shelves: class , fictionth-century , addiction , poverty , booze.

I love this poem about the drunken Charles Bukowski, written by Raymond Carver, depicting fictional? 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 pr I love this poem about the drunken Charles Bukowski, written by Raymond Carver, depicting fictional?

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. 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—because he was of course drunk—the 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.

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. 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. But can I turn away and stop listening? Bukowski will be hilarious for some, and too offensive for many, but he sure can tell a story.

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at a. 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—isolation.

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. View all 13 comments. Dec 06, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: classics , 20th-century , novels , mystery , fiction , thriller , german-american.

Set in the '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.

Oct 10, Joshua Nomen-Mutatio rated it it was ok Shelves: fiction. 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.

One 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.

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.

Then I moved to the couch where I drank alcohol and chain-smoked cigarettes while zooming through the book. But I still felt entertained by this stuff, nonetheless.

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.

Working, Drinking, Fucking. Rinse, repeat. 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? 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.

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? Some part of me can resonate with this, as much as I high-falutin-ly know that this is the case.

I do not know for sure. View all 43 comments. Nov 12, Jon Nakapalau rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , favorites. When the undercurrent of life starts to pull you away even struggling against it can take you further away View 2 comments.

Mar 17, Brian rated it really liked it Recommended to Brian by: Ned. 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' "What kind of job you looking for? 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. View all 3 comments. Shelves: postmodern , existentialism-nihilism , transgressive-fiction , classics , fiction , 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.

He said me huffi, work work work work work 'These people are assholes, they're all cow Chinaski has this new job, he's a bartender now.

He said me huffi, work work work work work 'These people are assholes, they're all cowards', he murmurs again.

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.

Chinaski just lost his th job. 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.. Ha "These people are assholes, assholes!

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.

Jul 19, Lawnzilla rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. My first Bukowski novel I find myself relating so much to Henry Chinaski.

His manias, his phobias, his inept attempts at becoming a functioning member of society that lead him to realize he truly wasn't a man meant for this world I find such comfort in his distressing words.

The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this My first Bukowski novel The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this narrow cement strip surrounded by water and all the people in the bus, the twenty-five or forty of fifty-two people trusted him, but I never did.

Sometimes it was a new driver, and I thought, how do they select these sons of bitches? There's deep water on both sides of us and with one error of judgment he'll kill us all.

It was ridiculous. Suppose he had an argument with his wife that morning? Or cancer? Or visions of God? Bad teeth? He could do it. Dump us all. 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't a real man in the whole shitload. I always got to work sick but safe. Great as always, you gotta love him! 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 s, 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.

In a smaller but still choice role Marisa Tomei is well disguised as another drunken lady Hank goes home with, finding that she lives with a flaky French millionaire called Pierre Didier Flamand with a little yacht and dreams of composing an opera.

Hank's been taken off so many two bit jobs being fired has no sting left for him. Bukowski's persona is impenetrable and he's a simple survivor: he's almost utterly resistant to the forces of change his wayward lifestyle would activate in lesser beings and hence, unlike the downward spiraling drunk so movingly played by Nick Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, Bukowski's Hank in Dillon's performance cannot build toward pathos or true depth.

As suggested, this film doesn't develop its sequences and relationships as thoroughly as Barfly, for which Bukowski himself wrote the screenplay, giving it a continuity and focus Factotum's more cobbled-together script doesn't quite muster.

There's something condescending and cultish in the European cultivation of the Bukowski myth in which this is another short chapter. Factotum is an occasionally amusing, at moments laugh-out-loud kind of movie that's well served by all the principals and by director Hamer's dry wit and restraint, but after the desultory and boring stretches have eventually started to pile up you may begin to say: So what?

Not to fault the editing, but mightn't a native's keener ear for the rhythms of the dialogue have kept the flow going better? This is one to see if you like Matt Dillon or Bukowski; otherwise, save your time.

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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.

Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling. Director: Bent Hamer.

And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. Keep track of everything you watch; Peter Fricke your friends. After a strange misadventure on Pierre's boat, Chinaski briefly returns to Jan, who is Dwayn Johnson working as a chambermaid at a hotel. Chinaski, come on out here! Besser Gehts Nicht through his literary language that Bukowski delivers his life experiences in an efficient way. Sie werden mit unserer Zustimmung Sherlock Gnomes Dritten Factotum und die gesammelten Informationen können mit Anzeigenkunden geteilt werden. Good Bye, Lenin! Leave this field blank. Trailer Bilder. Meine Freunde. User folgen Lies die 11 Kritiken. Anmelden oder Konto erstellen. Einen Moment Doch weil Henry von etwas leben muss, verdingt Auf Streife sich immer wieder als Hilfsarbeiter.

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