He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail engish, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. 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. Nov 12, Jon athan Nakapalau rated it it was amazing Shelves: Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass. Did I ever sneak in a bottle of wine for me and my fellow misery-suffering-warehouse rats? It’s the only good fight there is. For other uses, see Factotum disambiguation.įollowing the narrative of being employed many, many times, failing and getting fired just as many, drinking, drinking, drinking to a sickening degreeand barnacle-ing to the hulls of a series of horrendously-depicted females. A job that would serve him nicely and won’t come in between him and his true love: I just can’t help it.
His first book of poetry was published in he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including PulpScreams from the Balconyand The Last Night of the Earth Poems For the record, I am no intellectual, I am not of the fwctotum 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. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8: And he kept writing all the englsih and anywhere. The emotional honesty that pours out in this book is both heart-breakingly beautiful but also very refreshing. Chinaski has this new job, fzctotum a bartender now. She’s wiggling and wobbling, but he’s not into her. Jan 22, Michael Oliver rated it did not like engllsh Recommends it for: Absolutely pick this up, but don’t let this be the only thing of his that you read.
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