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Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure

de Noah Van Sciver

Séries: Fante Bukowski (3)

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After another year of living in the great American Midwest, self-styled erudite and superstar-to-be Fante Bukowski has a final showdown between his father and his dreams, is hired to ghostwrite a teen celebrity's memoir, and attends his first local zine fest. Meanwhile, there are hidden forces working behind the scenes to push Fante Bukowski into the critical and financial success he's always longed for, despite his continued lack of talent.… (mais)
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Fante Bukowski is in theory a one-joke character: the worst writer in the world with the highest self-regard, kind of the Inspector Clouseau of literature but drunker and more venal. What makes him so much fun, and makes the idea of doing three whole books about him even imaginable, is Van Sciver's eye for the unexpected detail, both in Fante's madness and in the only slightly more sensible world around him. In this book, for instance, we learn that one of the two real friendships he's ever had was with a family of raccoons in his attic—and it makes sense and is actually kind of poignant.

That said, my favorite of the three books would still have to be either the first, because of its freshness and brevity, or the second, because of the surprisingly successful way it turned one of the supporting caricatures (Audrey) into sort of an actual person and also brought Fante into two new worlds (zine-making and Columbus, OH). The third one suffers slightly from having two specific jobs that, as the final installment, it needs to do: show us Fante's origin as the young Kelly Perkins, and have enough of a plot to move Fante slightly out of his rut so the end can feel like an ending.

The plot is not a bad choice, as it brings Fante into contact with some more areas of culture he doesn't understand, and also builds on one of the best jokes in the second book (the idea that Columbus is the nexus of the literary world, and that one specific person there has slept with basically every living major writer)... but it does make a few parts drag a little, as Fante has to do X amount of stuff that he can fail at for story purposes; and some of it feels a little like "well, better make sure I've raised the stakes further than before", so for instance whereas Fante accidentally burned down a building in book two, here there are two (implied) gruesome murders. The subplot about his performance-artist friend is fun because Van Sciver obviously enjoys writing and drawing that character and revealing her insanity little by little, but it diverges so far from what the rest of the book is about that it feels kind of like the kind of TV episode that's meant to set up a new spinoff show. There's also a slight foray into the small-press comics world (with another appearance by the horrible "Noah Van Sciver" from book two) but mostly just for the sake of roasting John Porcellino.

None of the above is stuff that really bothers me; it's just my attempt to figure out why this book didn't strike me as a crowning achievement, but just another very entertaining and inventive take on a premise that in most authors' hands would've been good for about ten pages. ( )
  elibishop173 | Oct 11, 2021 |
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After another year of living in the great American Midwest, self-styled erudite and superstar-to-be Fante Bukowski has a final showdown between his father and his dreams, is hired to ghostwrite a teen celebrity's memoir, and attends his first local zine fest. Meanwhile, there are hidden forces working behind the scenes to push Fante Bukowski into the critical and financial success he's always longed for, despite his continued lack of talent.

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