Henry Chinaski has always been on the warpath, not lowering his guard against the "establishment" and its infinite tentacles. But in Hollywood it will not be easy for him: John Pinchot, a maddening film director, insists on bringing to the screen his stories of youth, or the autobiography of an inveterido alcoholic. Chinaski is suspicious of the project, although he reluctantly agrees to write the script for the film. And here the real problems begin. Bukowski tells in this book the experiences of his alter ego Chinaski during the filming of the film Barfly, directed by Barbet Schroeder and interpreted by Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. A sarcastic, acid and corrosive vision of the Hollywood interlacings in which curious and eccentric characters parade: producers, scribblers, artists of all imaginable, phantom executives, journalists ... A hard world where everything turns to the comp...read more
