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Factotum is a 1975 novel by Charles Bukowski in which Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, gets and loses jobs. Chinaski's journey through different jobs is always accompanied by alcohol, sex, women and the usual humourous and sharp wit and depression.
Film
It was turned into a film in 2005 by Norwegian director Bent Hamer, with Matt Dillon starring as Chinaski, Lili Taylor as Jan and Marisa Tomei as Laura. The movie's subtitle - 'a man who performs many jobs' - explains the meaning of the main title.
A factotum is also someone who "does it all" from the Latin "to do" or "to make" facere and "everything" or "all" totum. In English one would say a factotum is a Man Friday. In Rossini's The Barber of Seville the titular character Figaro refers to himself as a factotum.
External links
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417658/combined
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