Set in 1944, the plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually unemployed, alcoholic alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War IIdraft 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 floozie Laura finds him once again falling into a morose state of perpetual drunkenness and unemployment.
A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.
The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modernromance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,
The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."
Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.
Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.
This is a list of alternative base character classes to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. As base classes rather than prestige classes, they can be taken by newly created characters without need for any prerequisites.
Two new classes were introduced after the release of the original D&D boxed set: Thieves in Supplement I - Greyhawk and Bards in The Strategic Review. New subclasses were introduced in Supplement I - Greyhawk, Supplement II - Blackmoor, Supplement III - Eldritch Wizardry and the Strategic Review.
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
published: 28 Dec 2017
Factotum by Charles Bukowski BOOK REVIEW
This episode centers around “Factotum”, written by the infamous and widely imitated Charles Bukowski. As the name implies, Factotum tells the story of a worker’s life, but Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s self inspired antihero) is not your average worker— unless your idea of an average worker is someone who constantly drinks, fights, philanders, and writes poetry. Join us as we discuss Bukowski’s unique philosophy on work, women, and a system that’s apparently designed to keep the little guy down.
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published: 03 May 2022
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
This is a reupload of the first Factotum. There was some issues with the upload but I hope this one fixes it. Thank you for viewing and listening!
Written By: Charles Bukowski
Narrated By: Christian Baskous
Publisher: HarperCollins
Image Credits: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sam-cherry-charles-bukowski-at-the-old-terminal-annex-post-office-w-slash-people-in-line
published: 28 Jul 2020
Factotum by Charles Bukowski/book review
published: 26 Jan 2021
Factotum - Charles Bukowski - Book Review
Curious book. Curious Review. Lots of ups and downs going on here.
If you can expand on what's going on here then please do so.
published: 11 Mar 2020
Book Review: Factotum, Charles Bukoswki
My thoughts on Factotum by Charles Bukoswki. Be kind strangers! This is my first book review.
published: 24 Aug 2014
Women - Charles Bukowski Audio Book
Women - Charles Bukowski
Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered on Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment.
Plot
Women focuses on the many dissatisfactions Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. One of the women featured in the book is a character named Lydia Vance; she is based on Bukowski's one-time girlfriend, the sculptress and sometime poet Linda King Another central female character in the book is named "Tanya" who is described as a 'tiny girl-child' and Chinaski's pen-pal....
published: 18 May 2020
Charles Bukowski - Factotum [review]
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One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era ...
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
This episode centers around “Factotum”, written by the infamous and widely imitated Charles Bukowski. As the name implies, Factotum tells the story of a worker’...
This episode centers around “Factotum”, written by the infamous and widely imitated Charles Bukowski. As the name implies, Factotum tells the story of a worker’s life, but Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s self inspired antihero) is not your average worker— unless your idea of an average worker is someone who constantly drinks, fights, philanders, and writes poetry. Join us as we discuss Bukowski’s unique philosophy on work, women, and a system that’s apparently designed to keep the little guy down.
If you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.
Leave us a comment and subscribe to our channel!
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0:00 Intro / About the author
1:50 About the novel
4:50 Why Bukowski is a "banned" author
9:05 Style of the writing
12:00 Is Henry Chinaski an authentic character?
18:45 What is the message of this novel?
24:10 Gertrude
28:45 Was society to blame for Bukowski's struggles?
33:00 Disagreeing with Bukowski's "Don't Try" mentality
36:25 Bukowski taking a dig at Henry Miller
40:00 Closing Thoughts
#CharlesBukowski #Bukowski #Factotum
This episode centers around “Factotum”, written by the infamous and widely imitated Charles Bukowski. As the name implies, Factotum tells the story of a worker’s life, but Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s self inspired antihero) is not your average worker— unless your idea of an average worker is someone who constantly drinks, fights, philanders, and writes poetry. Join us as we discuss Bukowski’s unique philosophy on work, women, and a system that’s apparently designed to keep the little guy down.
If you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.
Leave us a comment and subscribe to our channel!
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0:00 Intro / About the author
1:50 About the novel
4:50 Why Bukowski is a "banned" author
9:05 Style of the writing
12:00 Is Henry Chinaski an authentic character?
18:45 What is the message of this novel?
24:10 Gertrude
28:45 Was society to blame for Bukowski's struggles?
33:00 Disagreeing with Bukowski's "Don't Try" mentality
36:25 Bukowski taking a dig at Henry Miller
40:00 Closing Thoughts
#CharlesBukowski #Bukowski #Factotum
This is a reupload of the first Factotum. There was some issues with the upload but I hope this one fixes it. Thank you for viewing and listening!
Written By:...
This is a reupload of the first Factotum. There was some issues with the upload but I hope this one fixes it. Thank you for viewing and listening!
Written By: Charles Bukowski
Narrated By: Christian Baskous
Publisher: HarperCollins
Image Credits: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sam-cherry-charles-bukowski-at-the-old-terminal-annex-post-office-w-slash-people-in-line
This is a reupload of the first Factotum. There was some issues with the upload but I hope this one fixes it. Thank you for viewing and listening!
Written By: Charles Bukowski
Narrated By: Christian Baskous
Publisher: HarperCollins
Image Credits: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sam-cherry-charles-bukowski-at-the-old-terminal-annex-post-office-w-slash-people-in-line
Women - Charles Bukowski
Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotu...
Women - Charles Bukowski
Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered on Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment.
Plot
Women focuses on the many dissatisfactions Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. One of the women featured in the book is a character named Lydia Vance; she is based on Bukowski's one-time girlfriend, the sculptress and sometime poet Linda King Another central female character in the book is named "Tanya" who is described as a 'tiny girl-child' and Chinaski's pen-pal. They have a weekend tryst. The real-life counterpart to this character wrote a self-published chapbook about the affair entitled "Blowing My Hero" under the pseudonym Amber O'Neil. The washed-up folksinger "Dinky Summers" is based on Bob Linda.
In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames.
Perform by Christian Baskous
#Women #AudioBook #CharlesBukowski #Bukowski #BukowskiBornintothis #Poem #CharlesBukowskipoems #Novel
Women - Charles Bukowski
Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered on Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment.
Plot
Women focuses on the many dissatisfactions Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. One of the women featured in the book is a character named Lydia Vance; she is based on Bukowski's one-time girlfriend, the sculptress and sometime poet Linda King Another central female character in the book is named "Tanya" who is described as a 'tiny girl-child' and Chinaski's pen-pal. They have a weekend tryst. The real-life counterpart to this character wrote a self-published chapbook about the affair entitled "Blowing My Hero" under the pseudonym Amber O'Neil. The washed-up folksinger "Dinky Summers" is based on Bob Linda.
In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames.
Perform by Christian Baskous
#Women #AudioBook #CharlesBukowski #Bukowski #BukowskiBornintothis #Poem #CharlesBukowskipoems #Novel
The Heavy Metal Book Worm does NOT endorse the sweet, sweet life of casual alcoholism...
Delicious.
Additional points to anyone who spots the Eddie Izzard ref...
The Heavy Metal Book Worm does NOT endorse the sweet, sweet life of casual alcoholism...
Delicious.
Additional points to anyone who spots the Eddie Izzard reference.
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The Heavy Metal Book Worm does NOT endorse the sweet, sweet life of casual alcoholism...
Delicious.
Additional points to anyone who spots the Eddie Izzard reference.
============
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One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
This episode centers around “Factotum”, written by the infamous and widely imitated Charles Bukowski. As the name implies, Factotum tells the story of a worker’s life, but Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s self inspired antihero) is not your average worker— unless your idea of an average worker is someone who constantly drinks, fights, philanders, and writes poetry. Join us as we discuss Bukowski’s unique philosophy on work, women, and a system that’s apparently designed to keep the little guy down.
If you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.
Leave us a comment and subscribe to our channel!
BannedBookClubPodcast.com
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0:00 Intro / About the author
1:50 About the novel
4:50 Why Bukowski is a "banned" author
9:05 Style of the writing
12:00 Is Henry Chinaski an authentic character?
18:45 What is the message of this novel?
24:10 Gertrude
28:45 Was society to blame for Bukowski's struggles?
33:00 Disagreeing with Bukowski's "Don't Try" mentality
36:25 Bukowski taking a dig at Henry Miller
40:00 Closing Thoughts
#CharlesBukowski #Bukowski #Factotum
This is a reupload of the first Factotum. There was some issues with the upload but I hope this one fixes it. Thank you for viewing and listening!
Written By: Charles Bukowski
Narrated By: Christian Baskous
Publisher: HarperCollins
Image Credits: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sam-cherry-charles-bukowski-at-the-old-terminal-annex-post-office-w-slash-people-in-line
Women - Charles Bukowski
Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered on Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment.
Plot
Women focuses on the many dissatisfactions Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. One of the women featured in the book is a character named Lydia Vance; she is based on Bukowski's one-time girlfriend, the sculptress and sometime poet Linda King Another central female character in the book is named "Tanya" who is described as a 'tiny girl-child' and Chinaski's pen-pal. They have a weekend tryst. The real-life counterpart to this character wrote a self-published chapbook about the affair entitled "Blowing My Hero" under the pseudonym Amber O'Neil. The washed-up folksinger "Dinky Summers" is based on Bob Linda.
In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames.
Perform by Christian Baskous
#Women #AudioBook #CharlesBukowski #Bukowski #BukowskiBornintothis #Poem #CharlesBukowskipoems #Novel
The Heavy Metal Book Worm does NOT endorse the sweet, sweet life of casual alcoholism...
Delicious.
Additional points to anyone who spots the Eddie Izzard reference.
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Set in 1944, the plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually unemployed, alcoholic alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War IIdraft 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 floozie Laura finds him once again falling into a morose state of perpetual drunkenness and unemployment.