B.S. Johnson
Birth date: February 05, 1933
Died: November 13, 1973
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In which Johnson has lots of fun with constraints and toilet humour... Apparently, the structure isn't new. It had been deployed at least four decades before in 'Tea with Mrs Goodman' by Philip Toynbee, according to Johnson's biographer, Jonathan Coe. Clearly, telling the same events from the persp...
In his third novel, the experimental novelist (a term he came to dislike), pursues relentlessly his mission to write truth rather than fiction. Largely a roman à clef, then, it differs in the starkness with which the author lays bare his own thought processes. There is no attempt at all to show hims...
Wow. I'm so glad that this book was on my syllabus this term. BS Johnson's The Unfortunates has the most interesting format of any novel that I have ever read. It's essentially a book in a box, and once you open the box up there are a bunch of separated sections, which can be shuffled in any order...
bookshelves: autumn-2010, play-dramatisation, published-1969 Recommended for: Radio 3 listeners Read on October 18, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** A non-mawkish heart-rending whimsy brilliantly dramatised.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...adapted by Graham WhiteCast: Bryan ..... Martin Freeman T...
I am joining my voice to the chorus of friends who love this book. I read it yesterday, when I was not in the best of moods. Johnson's writing helped to lift that haze. (Many thanks to Mark for recommending and lending the book to me. I have now ordered my own copy - you're correct that I want it fo...
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