Factotum

Factotum

Factotum is the second novel by American author Charles Bukowski. The plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and makes his way from one menial job to the next . Factotum was adapted into a film of the same name starring Matt Dillon in 2005. Factotum takes place in 1944 and follows the life of perpetually unemployed alcoholic Henry Chinaski as he 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...
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Author:Charles Bukowski
Genre:Fiction
Number of editions:11

Author of Factotum

Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994
Birthplace:Andernach

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships...
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Additional works by Charles Bukowski
BookGenre
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town Short story
Hollywood Fiction
Post Office Fiction
Ham on Rye Autobiographical novel
Women Fiction
South of No North Fiction
Pulp Fiction
Tales of ordinary madness
Beauti - Ful and Other Long Poems
Confessions of a man insane enough to live with beasts
Reach for the sun
In the morning and at night and in between
Africa, Paris, Greece
Barfly
Crucifix in a deathhand
Six Poets
Heat wave
Ploplop No. 3
Screams from the balcony
new war
Soy la orilla de un vaso que corta, soy sangre
Das Liebesleben der Hyäne. Roman
Faktotum
Le ragoût du septuagénaire
Roter Mercedes. Gedichte
captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship
Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window
Dangling in the tournefortia
Kamikaze - Träume
Avec les damnés
L'amour est un chien de l'enfer
Lo Que Mas Me Gusta Es Rascarme Los Sobacos
Life and death in the charity ward
Under the Influence
Le Capitaine est parti déjeuner..
Le Postier
Escrutaba La Locura En Busca de La Palabra, El Verso, La Ruta
Shakespeare nunca lo hizo
singer
Cold dogs in the courtyard
Run With the Hunted
simple truth
Living on luck
Nicht mit sechzig, Honey / Gedichte vom südlichen Ende der Couch
Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed a bit
Beerspit night and cursing
Schlechte Verlierer. Stories
Fire station
Jeder zahlt drauf
Love is a dog from hell
We ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain
Fuck Machine. Stories
Septuagenarian Stew
War all the time
It catches my heart in its hands
Betting on the muse
flash of lightning behind the mountain
Open all night
La Senda del Perdedor
Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness
Selected Letters Volume 3
All the assholes in the world and mine
Come on in!
There's no business
If you let them kill you, they will
Sunlight here I am
If we take ..
Mujeres
Burning in water, drowning in flame
Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibiciones
Kaputt in Hollywood. Stories
Preguntale Al Polvo
You get so alone at times that it just makes sense
Hijo de Satanas
night torn mad with footsteps
Nouveaux Contes de La Folie Ordinaire
El Capitan Salio a Comer
Kadinlar
sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way
Peleando a la Contra
Hot water music
You kissed Lilly
Another Academy
Anthology of L.A. poets
curtains are waving
last night of the earth poems
Musica de Canerias
New Poems
At terror street and agony way
days run away like wild horses over the hills
Je t'aime, Albert et les autres nouvelles de Hot Water Music
People Poems
Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise
Aufzeichnungen eines Außenseiters
Ausgeträumt
In the Shadow of the Rose
Bone palace ballet
Bring me your love
roominghouse madrigals
Pittsburgh Phil und Co. Stories vom verschütteten Leben
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Film adaptations of Factotum

Factotum
Factotum
Release date:April 12, 2005
Directed by:Bent Hamer
Rated:R (USA)
Runtime:94 minutes

Factotum is a 2005 film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. The script also makes use of poems published in What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire and The Days Run Aways Like Horses Over the Hill as well as some of Bukowski's notebook...
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Literary Genres

Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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