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No hay mucho que decir, es una novela de Bukowski y no puedo ser objetivo porque es uno de mis autores preferidos.
El joven escritor Henry Chinask... (show more)

No hay mucho que decir, es una novela de Bukowski y no puedo ser objetivo porque es uno de mis autores preferidos.
El joven escritor Henry Chinaski salta de trabajo en trabajo, de ciudad en ciudad y de bar en bar. Trabaja para sobrevivir (comer, pagar alquiler y, sobre todo, comprar alcohol), sin esperanzas de progreso económico ni de éxito profesional. Acepta trabajos de poca monta que lo saque de apuros y los deja al poco tiempo. El personaje es un perdedor que no se resiste a su condición. Una sátira invertida de la sociedad americana, una crítica mordaz, la otra cara del "American Dream".
Bukowski no necesita demasiadas descripciones, metáfora ingeniosas, ni firuletes literarios para mostrarle al lector el mundo del bajofondo americano, poblado de marginales, borrachos, prostitutas y vagabundos.
Yo leí muchos libros de Bukowski antes de encontrar éste, algunos mejores otros no tanto, pero tengo la impresión de que es un buen libro para empezar.
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by Alejandro Olaguer

No, it's a flop!

I thought I would love Bukowski.

I love dirty bars. I love derelicts. I love watching "Intervention" - so Bukowski should be my man.

Nope.
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I thought I would love Bukowski.

I love dirty bars. I love derelicts. I love watching "Intervention" - so Bukowski should be my man.

Nope.

I was wrong. I was so wrong that I couldn't stop reading it. It was like a train wreck. I really wanted to stuff this book back on the shelf, but I just couldn't. But even though I kept reading it, I really never enjoyed it. I just felt tired and used after every chapter. Ugh. (show less)

 

 

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  Me he aficionado a la narración decadente del alemán y su ambiente de sexo, sordidez, degradación y hastío, a su singular vulgaridad y su prosa procaz, literalmente en “Factótum” cae en círculos viciosos en la segunda mitad haciendo que la cotidianeidad de Henry y sus dos mujeres, Jan y Laura, a veces resulte sofocante, sin embargo, la obra es directa, puntual, diligente. La de Charles Bukowski es una literatura de arquetipo, el de la decadencia americana y el derrumbe de su sueño... (show more)

  Me he aficionado a la narración decadente del alemán y su ambiente de sexo, sordidez, degradación y hastío, a su singular vulgaridad y su prosa procaz, literalmente en “Factótum” cae en círculos viciosos en la segunda mitad haciendo que la cotidianeidad de Henry y sus dos mujeres, Jan y Laura, a veces resulte sofocante, sin embargo, la obra es directa, puntual, diligente. La de Charles Bukowski es una literatura de arquetipo, el de la decadencia americana y el derrumbe de su sueño.

  “After breakfast and after my parents had left for their jobs I took off my clothes and went back to bed. I masturbated an then made a time study in an old school notebook the time study with some pleasantly obscene drawings, I knew that my father would charge me atrocious prices for room but the desire to find job did not seem to be with me…” -Henry Chinanski - (show less)

   

  by Adriana Olguin on Dec 14, 2009 at 04:26PM

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  This was my intro to Bukowski, and I'm not sure what I expected from him but it wasn't quite this. Not bad at all, but often gross-out disturbing, very past edgy for a book written in the 70s set in the 40s. It feels like Kerouac minus the jazz and pot with a heckuva lot more booze and explicit sex. It's like noir without crime, character driven work without pretension and completely devoid of message or moral. My favorite line in the book was: “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, b... (show more)

  This was my intro to Bukowski, and I'm not sure what I expected from him but it wasn't quite this. Not bad at all, but often gross-out disturbing, very past edgy for a book written in the 70s set in the 40s. It feels like Kerouac minus the jazz and pot with a heckuva lot more booze and explicit sex. It's like noir without crime, character driven work without pretension and completely devoid of message or moral. My favorite line in the book was: “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” (p.127) (show less)

   

   

  by Dustin Hamby on Feb 08, 2009 at 03:37AM

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