Hollywood
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Descripción editorial
Prin Hollywood Bukowski isi povesteste experientele de scenarist din vremea cand in anul 1987 lucra la turnarea unui film. Henry Chinaski celebrul alter ego al lui Bukowski revine de data aceasta cu un scenariu hollywoodian: The Dance of Jim Beam. Filmul este inspirat din experientele de scandalagiu petrecaret ale tanarului Chinaski pe cand acesta nu era inca un scriitor cunoscut. Pe masura ce protagonistul alaturi de iubita lui Sarah este prins de vartejul experientelor hollywoodiene Bukowski agata cu ironie in firul parodic al evenimentelor si nume cunoscute din lumea culturala transformandu-le doar pe alocuri rezonanta: Jon-Luc Modard filozoful Jean-Paul Sanrah Frances Ford Lopalla si un anume Victor Norman ce aminteste de Norman Mailer. Prin reaparitia lui Henry Chinaski cu pasiunile sale explozive pentru bautura femei si curse de cai prin ireverentiozitatea portretelor pe care le face Hollywood marcheaza inca un moment in evolutia romanelor autobiografice ale lui Charles Bukowski.
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Bukowski ( The Roominghouse Madrigals ) has written over 30 books of poetry and fiction in which he uses the persona of the artistic bum with reasonable success. In this flimsy novel, Henry Chinaski is asked to write a screenplay, and thus Bukowski continues his thinly disguised autobiography (Bukowski himself wrote the screenplay for the recent, self-referential Barfly ). When all the Hollywood types Chinaski encounters--directors, lawyers, producers, actors, actresses--fit the same drunken-outcast-but-artistic-genius mold, Bukowski seems to have exhausted his resourcefulness. His characters lose their individuality and the novel lacks force and perspective. This book deteriorates into juvenile satire in which familiar, real-life figures appear with the letters of their names shifted slightly: the famous director Jon-Luc Modard, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sanrah, Frances Ford Lopalla and an obvious Norman Mailer stand-in called Victor Norman.
