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Set in the 1940s, 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).
Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip; 20 Tanks From Kasseldown; Hard Without Music; Trace: Editors Write; Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook; A Rambling Essay on Poetics and the Bleeding Life Written While Drinking a Six-Pack (Tall)
Bukowski's birthplace at Aktienstrasse, Andernach Charles Bukowski was born Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Prussia, Weimar Germany.His father was Heinrich (Henry) Bukowski, an American of German descent who had served in the U.S. army of occupation after World War I and had remained in Germany after his army service.
Factotum is a 2005 French-Norwegian dark comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the 1975 novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. It stars Matt Dillon as Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski. Although events in the book take place in Los Angeles in the 1940s, the film has a contemporary setting.
He is also mentioned briefly in the beginning of Bukowski's last novel, Pulp (1994). Chinaski is a writer who worked for years as a mail carrier. An alcoholic , womanizing misanthrope, he serves as both the protagonist and antihero of the novels in which he appears, which span from his poverty-stricken childhood to his middle age, in which he ...
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Tales of Ordinary Madness is one of two collections of short stories by Charles Bukowski that City Lights Publishers culled from its 1972 paperback volume Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. (The other volume is entitled The Most Beautiful Woman in Town). Both volumes were first published in 1983 and ...
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper that were collated and published by Essex House in 1969. His short articles were marked by his trademark crude humor, as well as his attempts to present a "truthful" or objective viewpoint of various events in ...