Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

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Johnson was apparently one of the best-known novelists in Britain in the 1960s and 70s, known, as the blurb states, “for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. His family is not wealthy, and he wants to be near money so simple Christie takes a position at a bank. Skater responded with a distinctly

The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Johnson tells us that any attempt he makes to characterise Christie's appearance he does 'with diffidence, in the knowledge that such physical descriptions are rarely of value in a novel. Johnson (1933-1973), a forgotten hero of the British avant-garde of the 1960s and 70s (he committed suicide when he was not yet 40), wrote seven wonderful novels that echo Joyce and Beckett in their intelligence, inventiveness and genius for language. The novel features a number of metafictional elements (in line with the author's belief that the novel was an outdated and limited artform) that are not reproduced in the film, such as how BS Johnson's narrator visits Christie in hospital but has his visit cut short when 'the nurses then suggested I leave, not knowing who I was, that he could not die without me', [17] the way a number of characters including Christie are aware they are appearing in a novel, such as when he is asked by his employer why he did not schedule his mother's funeral a day later than he did replies 'There wasn't any more time.

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The revenges become more and more elaborate and detailed, and then Johnson ends the book in the only possible way. I didn’t have any difficulties reading it, the ‘experimentation’ is mild by comparison to other novels I’ve equally enjoyed but probably because the experimental fiction has evolved and branched out in many directions since Johnson’s pioneering times.For every offence Christy henceforth received at the hands of a society with which he was clearly out of step. He takes up with a sexually eager young woman – think vacuum cleaners and shaving foam – known only as the Shrike. Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry, the last novel to be published in B S Johnson’s lifetime, is undoubtedly his funniest. For Johnson, writing demanded honesty and accuracy, which he sought to achieve through his radical experiments with form.