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Factotum
(Charles Bukowski)

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Factotum, Bukowski's second novel, tells the continuing
story of his alter ego (and anti-hero) Henry (Hank) Chinaski, a low life and
desperate drunk stuck in a kind of civilian catch 22 between sanity and
work. More episodic than his previous novel, Post Office, Factotum flows
past the reader like a wasted life, each day melting into the next as bad jobs
and bad women are lost and replaced with worse ones. While this may
sound depressing, due to Bukowski's skill at always managing to find humour in
even the worst situations, it very rarely is and the book is probably one of
the most page turning novels I have ever read. Witness Hank (a life long
hater of clothes "they are terrible things, cons, like vitamins")
discover the magic pants while working at a clothing
warehouse. Each chapter, though a step on a downward spiral, is rarely
without hope, even if it is nothing more than having enough money to get
another bottle of wine.
If you have never read any Bukowski then Factotum would be an
excellent place to start, it is more readable than Post Office and less
obviously misogynistic than Women (though one could argue that neither
are). If nothing else it is an insight into a world that few
writers (exceptions Nelson Algren and John Fante, both Bukowksi
favourites) have bothered to
explore. A sort of hymn to longing and loneliness, the book can be read
as a dramatisation of the fallacy of the American dream where only alcohol
offers solace from the pain of continuous failure. Excellent!



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