La route de Los Angeles
by John Fante
Orgueilleux, emphatique, looser provocateur, Arturo Bandini bourlingue dans l'Amérique des années trente. Enfermé dans un placard qui lui sert de " bureau ", errant de petits boulots en grosses galères, Bandini veut être écrivain. La Route de Los Angeles publiée après la mort de John Fante, marque la naissance d'un anti-héros culte et le début d'une œuvre flamboyante. " John Fante, avant les beatniks, a raconté l'aventure des laissés-pour-compte, des ivrognes. La Route de Los Angeles, c'est déjà le bréviaire d'une Amérique vulgaire et mal élevée. " Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Brice Matthieussent
Literature & FictionGenre Fiction
RELEASED1990
PUBLISHERC. Bourgois
LENGTH259
LANGUAGEFR
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. By far, his most popular novel is the semi-autobiographical *Ask the Dust*, the third book in what is now referred to as "The Saga of Arturo Bandini" or "The Bandini Quartet". Bandini served as his alter ego in a total of four novels: *Wait Until Spring, Bandini* (1938), *The Road to Los Angeles* (chronologically, this is the first novel Fante wrote but it was unpublished until 1985), *Ask the Dust* (1939), and finally *Dreams from Bunker Hill* (1982), which was dictated to his wife, Joyce, towards the end of his life. Fante's use of Bandini as his alter ego can be compared to Charles Bukowski's character, Henry Chinaski. Bukowski was heavily influenced by John Fante. In the late 1970s, at the suggestion of novelist and poet Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press began to republish the (then out-of-print) works of Fante, creating a resurgence in his popularity.
La route de Los Angeles
by John Fante
Orgueilleux, emphatique, looser provocateur, Arturo Bandini bourlingue dans l'Amérique des années trente. Enfermé dans un placard qui lui sert de " bureau ", errant de petits boulots en grosses galères, Bandini veut être écrivain. La Route de Los Angeles publiée après la mort de John Fante, marque la naissance d'un anti-héros culte et le début d'une œuvre flamboyante. " John Fante, avant les beatniks, a raconté l'aventure des laissés-pour-compte, des ivrognes. La Route de Los Angeles, c'est déjà le bréviaire d'une Amérique vulgaire et mal élevée. " Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Brice Matthieussent
Literature & FictionGenre Fiction
RELEASED1990
PUBLISHERC. Bourgois
LENGTH259
LANGUAGEFR
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. By far, his most popular novel is the semi-autobiographical *Ask the Dust*, the third book in what is now referred to as "The Saga of Arturo Bandini" or "The Bandini Quartet". Bandini served as his alter ego in a total of four novels: *Wait Until Spring, Bandini* (1938), *The Road to Los Angeles* (chronologically, this is the first novel Fante wrote but it was unpublished until 1985), *Ask the Dust* (1939), and finally *Dreams from Bunker Hill* (1982), which was dictated to his wife, Joyce, towards the end of his life. Fante's use of Bandini as his alter ego can be compared to Charles Bukowski's character, Henry Chinaski. Bukowski was heavily influenced by John Fante. In the late 1970s, at the suggestion of novelist and poet Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press began to republish the (then out-of-print) works of Fante, creating a resurgence in his popularity.
