The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.Ī memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves–and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop.
What happens there does not happen elsewhere. Factotum is recommended viewing for dreamers and nonconformists.īukowski (1920-1994) wrote numerous short stories, several novels and the script for the movie Barfly.The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. He wrote the book that inspired the screenplay.ĭoes that sound dreadful? It is not. Chinaski is the kind of guy who can't get out of his own way. He keeps company with questionable women. He leaves work early to hustle at the racetrack. Hank works a series odd menial jobs that won't interfere with his one real interest in life, writing, even though nobody is reading. He had a bad habit of stabbing himself in the foot. Chinaski documents the maverick values and nonconforming lifestyle he pursued while he chipped away at becoming a writer.
Hank is the kind of guy who would rather stare out a window at the city and think "What if?" than diligently work and chase ambitious conventional pursuits.
Matt Dillon, after many years, has finally become an interesting actor worthy of interesting roles. PLOT: A gritty, tawdry semi- biographical account of writer Charles Bukowski's seedy wanderings and misadventures with pretty horses and fast women as he attempts to write something publishable. WRITTEN BY: Bent Hamer based on the novel by Charles Bukowski It's a barbershop filled with cynical drunks. Filled with rain and thunder and periods of drought.
Filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen. "A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers.
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