Demande à la poussière

The Saga of Arturo Bandini #3

by John Fante, Philippe Garnier (Translator), Charles Bukowski (Preface)

On découvre dans Demande à la poussière une bourrasque littéraire qui conte les aventures d'Arturo Bandini, Rital du Colorado. Dans la lignée de Faulkner, et avant Charles Bukowski ou Jim Harrison, Fante ouvre une piste balayée par les poussières chères à l'Ouest sauvage. Elle se termine sur l'océan Pacifique, après moult détours, cuites et amours sans lendemain. Arturo Bandini, c'est l'alter ego de John Fante, fils de maçon bouillonnant, arpenteur de la dèche, écrivain avant tout. Arturo Bandini, c'est aussi toute l'enfance de l'immigré italien, la misère, l'humiliation de la mère trompée, les raclées du père. Les romans de Fante sentent la chaleur écrasante ou le froid mordant, les routes interminables, les chambres d'hôtel moites et les amoureuses sensuelles.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels, American, Literature, The United States Of America, Romance

271 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1939

About the author

Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.

In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.

He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. He was proclaimed by Time Out magazine as one of America's "criminally neglected writers."